Nizar Qabbani Quotes - Page 2

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

  Nizar Qabbani

  Notebook, Light, Important

  Nizar Qabbani, “Light Is More Important Than The Lantern”

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

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  Needs, Generations, Horizon

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• 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.

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  Men, Healthy, Soul

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• 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

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  Soul, Tragedy, Capes

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal

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  Grieving, Broken, Pieces

  Nizar Qabbani, “The Epic Of Sadness”

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• And all the countries seemed the same,
  That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.

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  Country

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

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  Hero, Thinking, Society

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

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  Dog, Opinion, Painful

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• 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.

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  People, Balls, Speech

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Struggle, Night

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• My Master... Say all you wish of me. It does not matter to me:Shallow.. Stupid.. Crazy.. Simple minded. It does not concern me anymore. For whoever writes about her concerns. in the logic of Men is called a stupid woman. and didn't I tell you in the beginning that I am a stupid woman?

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  Crazy, Stupid, Writing

  Nizar Qabbani, “A Letter From A Stupid Woman”

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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.

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  Dog, Clothes, Tears

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