"O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are……" — Nizar Qabbani
"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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29 Quotes by Nizar Qabbani
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Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.
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And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts…
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Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally,…
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Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free…
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Dive into the sea, or stay away
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The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who…
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And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
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If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
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Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth…
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What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
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Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.
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We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons
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