N Qabbani Quotes

#1. Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.

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#2. 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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#3. And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

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#4. 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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#5. Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.

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#10. Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

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#11. A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

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#12. 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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#13. If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. The most dangerous heart disease:
strong memory

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. Don't lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you.

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#20. 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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#21. What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. Before you came
the world was prose.
Now poetry is born.

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#25. There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.

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#26. We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

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#27. 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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#28. We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons

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#29. 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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#30. 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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