“O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me.The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program.
“Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.” “never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs” “And all the countries seemed the same, That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.” Arab children, Spring rain, Corn ears of the future, You are the generation That will overcome defeat.” Dont read about us, Dont ape us, Dont accept us, Dont accept our ideas, We are a nation of crooks and jugglers. We are as worthless as a water-melon rind. Arab children, Don't read about our suffocated generation, We are a hopeless case. “Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. “The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. Nizar Qabbani: Women in My Poetry and in My Life: Translated into English with an Introduction. “We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons” “Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.” 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.” Nizar Qabbani was born in the Syrian capital of Damascus to a middle class merchant family. “We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani was a Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.”
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I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. “Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free.
In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age” “Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. “Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.”
“Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.” “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.” “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.” “The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory” We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?” “We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. and didn't I tell you in the beginning that I am a stupid woman?” in the logic of Men is called a stupid woman. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.” “In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. “And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.” His great-uncle was Abu Khalil el-Qabbani, a 19th-century pioneer of Arab theatre. “There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.” Nizar Qabbani was born in Damascus in 1923 to a known, but not rich family. “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.” “If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.” “Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.” “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.'” “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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