Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook Nizar Qabbani More Quotes by Nizar Qabbani More Quotes From Nizar Qabbani 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 healthysoulmen We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons Nizar Qabbani horizongenerationsneeds 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 adjectivesmenlying We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind? Nizar Qabbani soulsleeppeople Dive into the sea, or stay away Nizar Qabbani sea 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 capestragedysoul And all the countries seemed the same, 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 piecesbrokengrieving 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 ballsspeechpeople 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 struggleprayernight We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think. Nizar Qabbani societyherothinking What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems. Nizar Qabbani ashamedshouldfeels never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs Nizar Qabbani menbelievethinking 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 crazystupidwriting It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs. Nizar Qabbani opinionpainfuldog O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me. Nizar Qabbani clothestearsdog
