قسما بعينيك التين إليها تأوي ملايين الكواكب.
I swear by your eyes in which a million planets reside.
- Bilqis, Nizar Qabbani
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أنا الدمشقيُّ لو شرّحتمُ جسدي...لسـالَ منهُ عناقيـدٌ وتفـّاحُ
I am the Damascene, if you cut my body open...It shall spill grapes and apples
نزار قباني, القصيدة الدمشقية
Nizar Qabbani, Damascene Poem
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Picking thirty flowers from a garden, and placing them in a vase is an act of great injustice against the garden.
Nizar Gabbani, about picking his favorite poem
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Some of Qabbani’s poetry, so pretty ☁️
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Nizar qabbani/ Rumi
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"When I Love," by Nizar Qabbani
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when Nizar Qabbani said, "The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it" it hit me so damn hard
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Jane Austen, Emma
Sufjan Stevens, Futile Devices
Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf
Hozier, Shrike
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Sierra DeMulder, Your Love Finds Its Way Back
Nizar Qabbani
“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”
Katherine Mansfield
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Nizar Qabbani, Bilqis.
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when he says :
he wants kids to "continue his bloodline"
but nizar qabbani wrote :
"Give me a daughter with your stubborn heart, or your even temper. Give our children your dark-bright eyes, or your enchanted smile. So that even when we are gone, the world will find within them all the reasons I loved you."
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Forgive me if I loved you so violently
and so madly,
for violence is my weapon to write
and my weapon when I love. And madness is the last gold ring
I place on your fingers.
Nizar Qabbani, tr. by Nayef al-Kalali, from Republic of Love: Selected Poems; “Love of 1994”
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Don’t lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still loves you.
Nizar Qabbani
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{Tokyo Story (1953), Dir. Yasujirô Ozu / Nizar Qabbani}
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I knew when I said
I love you
that I was inventing a new alphabet
for a city where no one could read
Nizar Qabbani, Between Us
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— Nizar Qabbani, from “I am accused”; Arabian Love Poems (tr. by Bassam Frangieh & Clementina Brown)
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“You have a lot in common with the moon; its light & its beauty, & its distance from me.”
Nizar Qabbani
Instagram: @solitudeismyeuphoria
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