Nizar Qabbani Quotes
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.'
If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
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
Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.
There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.
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.
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.
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?
And all the countries seemed the same, That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.
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
We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.
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.
never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs
O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me.
