Top 25 Quotes by Nizar Qabbani of 37 - Page 2

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

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.

Nizar Qabbani

Lying, Men, Adjectives

Nizar Qabbani, “Language”

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”

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

Men, Healthy, Soul

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

Soul, Tragedy, Capes

Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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

Nizar Qabbani

Country

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

Nizar Qabbani

Grieving, Broken, Pieces

Nizar Qabbani, “The Epic Of Sadness”

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

Nizar Qabbani

Dog, Opinion, Painful

Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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

Nizar Qabbani

Hero, Thinking, Society

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

People, Balls, Speech

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

Prayer, Struggle, Night

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?

Nizar Qabbani

Crazy, Stupid, Writing

Nizar Qabbani, “A Letter From A Stupid Woman”