Top 43 Nizar Qabbani Quotes
#2. Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.
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#3. And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while I'm the one who's crazy about them.
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#4. We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons
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#5. The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches.
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#6. We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.
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#7. There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.
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#8. Before you came
the world was prose.
Now poetry is born.
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#9. Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal
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#10. In the end, forgetting is nothing but turning a page in the book of life. It may seem an easy matter, but as long as you can't tear it, you will keep on stumbling upon it between each season of your life.
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#11. What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
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#12. Our shouting is louder than our actions,
Our swords are taller than us,
This is our tragedy.
In short
We wear the cape of civilisation
But our souls live in the stone age
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#13. Don't lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you.
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#14. Had I told the sea what I felt for you, it would have left its shores, its shells, its fish, and followed me.
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#15. We lost the war and it is not a surprise because we entered it with everything Eastern of the illusions of speeches. We invoke Antar and yet cannot slay a fly, because we entered it with the logic of the reed and the flute.
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#16. Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.
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#17. In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.
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#18. O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me.
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#19. If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
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#20. Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.
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#21. A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.
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#22. Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.
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#23. Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.
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#24. Never believe a man can change a woman
those men are pretenders
who think
that they created women
from one of their ribs
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#25. I gave you my whole when I could only give the quarter. And you kept your half from me when you could give your double.
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#26. During times of war.
I want to say:
I only love you,
And I cling you,
Like the peel clings to a pomegranate,
Like the tear clings to the eye,
Like the knife clings to the wound.
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#27. Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook
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#28. Every time I kiss you
After a long separation
I feel
I am putting a hurried love letter
In a red mailbox.
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#29. And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
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#30. When a man is in love
how can he use old words?
Should a woman
desiring her lover
lie down with
grammarians and linguists?
I said nothing
to the woman I loved
but gathered
love's adjectives into a suitcase
and fled from all languages.
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#31. Woman does not emerge from a man's rib, not ever, it's he who emerges from her womb.
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#33. We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many Messengers did we slay? O how many imams? We killed you and you prayed the night prayer, as all of our days are struggle - and all of our days are Karbala.
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#34. My lover asks me: "What is the difference between me and the sky?" The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky
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#35. We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?
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#36. It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.
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#37. Days will pass, and you'll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.
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#38. The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.
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#39. When I wiped you from the book of memory, I did not know I was striking out half my life
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#40. There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love
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#41. The sword has spoke the truth - in authority and wisdom - only the sword O Damascus is certain!
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#42. Kill him, then hug him.
Men are more faithful when dead.
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#43. Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.
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