Arabic Poetry Quotes

#1. There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

Salma Hayek

#2. "Who Remembers the Armenians?"

I remember them
and I ride the nightmare bus with them
each night
and my coffee, this morning
I'm drinking it with them

You, murderer -
Who remembers you?

Najwan Darwish

#3. Poetry is practically the only intellectual pursuit which we can be positive was highly developed and much practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia. It seems certain that the Arabic word for poet, shair, meant originally "one who knows," and the word for poetry, shir, "knowledge".

Franz Rosenthal

#4. I Will Rise One Day

I will rise one day and speak it
I, the Kurd, will rise one day
and speak it
I, the Amazigh, your voice
will rise one day
I, the Arab you know
will rise one day
and speak it:
They've gone now, Saladin

Najwan Darwish

#5. Eight centuries have passed
like a nap in the late afternoon
my throat is choked
with words I cannot speak


(from The Last Soldier's Words to Saladin)

Najwan Darwish

#6. Just like you, my country cannot hear me:
She's made of bronze
and I
can no longer reach her heart

(from Thoughts on the Statue of Talaat Harb)

Najwan Darwish

#7. There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

Robert Benchley

#8. I did a film called 'Days and Nights,' which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Chekhov's 'The Seagull.'

Juliet Rylance

#9. Few can see wither their road will lead them, till they comes to it's end. - Gimli

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

Shonda Rhimes

#11. Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

Rainn Wilson

#12. He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

Jean De La Bruyere

#13. There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.

Graham Greene

#14. because you are die surface of my sky.
My body is the land,
the place for you...
the pigeons fly
the pigeons come down...

Mahmoud Darwish

#15. With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

Michael W. Smith