Qabbani Nizar Quotes

Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants. ~ Nizar Qabbani

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. ~ Nizar Qabbani

Every time I kiss you
After a long separation
I feel
I am putting a hurried love letter
In a red mailbox. ~ Nizar Qabbani

Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook ~ Nizar Qabbani

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 ~ Nizar Qabbani

Woman does not emerge from a man's rib, not ever, it's he who emerges from her womb. ~ Nizar Qabbani

Dive into the sea, or stay away ~ Nizar Qabbani

When I wiped you from the book of memory, I did not know I was striking out half my life ~ Nizar Qabbani

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. ~ Nizar Qabbani

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. ~ Nizar Qabbani

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up. ~ Nizar Qabbani

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. ~ Nizar Qabbani

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 ~ Nizar Qabbani

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. ~ Nizar Qabbani

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. ~ Nizar Qabbani

أرقى النفوس هي التي تجرعت الألم فتجنبت أن تذيق الآخرين مرارته

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The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it. ~ Nizar Qabbani

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. ~ Nizar Qabbani

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body. ~ Nizar Qabbani

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. ~ Nizar Qabbani

The sword has spoke the truth - in authority and wisdom - only the sword O Damascus is certain! ~ Nizar Qabbani

What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems. ~ Nizar Qabbani

Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently. ~ Nizar Qabbani

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. ~ Nizar Qabbani

It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs. ~ Nizar Qabbani

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

We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons ~ Nizar Qabbani

And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you. ~ Nizar Qabbani

Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you. ~ Nizar Qabbani

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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O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me. ~ Nizar Qabbani

Days will pass, and you'll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality. ~ Nizar Qabbani

When I fell in love,
The kingdom of the Lord changed.
Twilight slept in my coat,
And the sun rose from the west. ~ Nizar Kabbani