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

Kill him, then hug him.
Men are more faithful when dead.

It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most dangerous heart disease:
strong memory

Before you came
the world was prose.
Now poetry is born.

Never believe a man can change a woman
those men are pretenders
who think
that they created women
from one of their ribs

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

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

Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook

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

Dive into the sea, or stay away

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.

We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons