#syrian literature

[beljar]

I have told you. About the girl who sings at the window. And the gravel that breaks under the wheels of the train. About the cemetery that has been sleeping happily for centuries, I have told you. A flower from my body, every morning—And a flower from my body, every evening—And I talk about all that has happened to me. Once, I sat by you and cried.

I wished to express myself with actions: To break a glass. To open a window. To sleep. But I couldn’t. What do I talk about after twenty-six years. Or after twenty-six bullets fired into emptiness? I am tired of talking, of debt, and work. But I will never tire of freedom. And here I am, dreaming of one thing or a few things: That the word becomes bread and grapes, a bird or a bed.

"A Moon", By Riyad Al-Saleh Al-Hussein, Translated by Ghada Alatrash

#a moon #riyad al saleh #arabic poetry #ghada alatrash #translated literature #poem #dark acadamia aesthetic #quotes #syrian literature

[gennsoup]

If we live, it's only because some distant galaxy lent us its dust for awhile.

Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

#Zeyn Joukhadar #The Thirty Names of Night #galaxy #dust #life affirming #uplifting quotes #Syrian literature #American literature #LGBTQ literature #LGBTQ author #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

[bones-ivy-breath]

The Past by Adonis (tr. Samuel Hazo), from “Transformations of the Lover”

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From the desert it comes, and on its face is the hunger of pigeons and parching flowers.

#adonis #transformations of the lover #quote #typography #literature #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #cottagecore #samuel hazo #the past #arabic literature #arabic poet #syrian literature #original post

[valseorcstra]

Saadallah Wannous, On Memory And Death

Published in 1997/ a imaginative mélange of essay with short story & play formats

#literature #tragedy #syrian literature #syrian writers #sketches #plays #theatre #book illustrations #books

[oneminutefriend]

From a distance, above his house               a perplexed moon dangles               from threads of dust.

Adonis, “Desert” (trans. Khaled Mattawa)

#oneminute.text #poetry #adonis #desert #syrian literature #arabic literature #translation

[typewriter-worries]

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.

My Lover Asks Me, Nizar Qabbani

#your laughter fills me like a bell #my lover asks me #nizar qabbani #poetry #literature #syrian poets #dark academia #classic academia #light academia

[swanasource]

“I wanted to show that we have agency and can tell our stories in our own way. We don’t need people speaking over us all the time,”

Inside a Groundbreaking Anthology That Sheds Light on 18 Queer Arab Voices

#Elias Jahshan #palestinian #lebanese #Khalid Abdel-Hadi #jordanian #Amna Ali #somali #yemeni #emirati #Zeyn Joukhadar #syrian #books #literature

[booksbyadesi]

"My letters to you

Are greater and more important than both of us.

Light is more important than the lantern,

The poem more important than the notebook,

And the kiss more important than the lips.

My letters to you

Are greater and more important than both of us.

They are the only documents

Where people will discover

Your beauty

And my madness."

Nizar Qabbani.

#nizar qabbani #bookblr #books and literature #love #writing #literature #short poetry #reader #academia aesthetic #nizar qabbani poetry #arabic poems #desiblr #love letters #arabic #syrian poet #writerslife #writers on tumblr #reading #reading in 2023 #writeblr

[existentialistes]

Adonis, from Selected Poems; The Wound

#not 2 be dramatic but this destroyed me and then spat me reborn #literature #adonis #poetry #on history #on wounds #Typography #words #mine #dark academia #light academia #syrian poetry #songs of mihyar the damascene #fragment

[wisdom-and-such]

“[Love]He grinds you to whiteness. He kneads you until you are pliant; And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your naked- ness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is suf- ficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, ‘God is in my heart,’ but rather, ‘I am in the heart of God.’

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.’

--On Love; from ‘The Prophet’ by Khalil Gibran

#literature #poetry #philosophy #meditation #god #spirituality #enlightenment #khalil gibran #syrian #history #poet #writers #writing #love #mystic #mysticism #metaphysics #sacred #theology

[citizen-of-a-floating-world]

Adonis

#poet #poetry in translation #poetry #poetic lines #quotes #fragments #literary quotes #literature #syrian poetry

[caramellovibez]

"I hadn't told them about you, but they saw you bathing in my eyes, I hadn't told them about you, but they saw you in my written words. The perfume of love cannot be concealed."

Nizar Qabbani

#literature #light acadamia aesthetic #books & libraries #poetic #arabic #syrian poetry

[gennsoup]

I used to think remembering could be a kind of resistance, but I'm not sure it's enough.

Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

#Zeyn Joukhadar #The Thirty Names of Night #remembering #memory #resistance #Syrian literature #LGBTQ literature #trans author #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

[bones-ivy-breath]

The Past by Adonis (tr. Samuel Hazo), from “Transformations of the Lover”

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Houses flee before its ghost that rises from the grave demanding vengeance.

#quote #typography #adonis #transformations of the lover #aesthetic #dark academia #dead academia #literature #the past #a haunting #dark things #original post #syrian poetry #arabic literature #arabic poetry

[dadaaesthetic]

#poetry #quotes #literature #poem #quote #text #aesthetic #poetic #thoughts #adonis lines #arabic poetry #arabic poems #syrian #dark acadamia aesthetic #unrequited feelings #existential crisis #expressionism #poets

[idiotpaintedface]

The Thrity Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhader

#queer #lgbtq #queer literature #queer lit #arab queer #syrian american #zeyn joukhader #trans lit #transgender #transmasculine #transman #gay