N Qabbani Quotes & Sayings

tell me even though lies soft words
it was about to kill me with you that statue

i still in the art of love a baby
between us seas and mountains

you still can't understand
that all men are babies

so if i stood before your love quietly
then quietness in the love is love

our words in love are killing our love
and letters are dying after they're said

love stories may drive you crazy
cause its all full of fantasies

love is not a story,my dear
where the stars marry each other by the end

its to get hot blooded for anything silly
it's our misery, it's our killing doubting

it's this hand that assassin us
and we accept that hand that assassin — Nizar Qabbani

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

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

If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness. — Nizar Qabbani

There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. — Nizar Qabbani

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

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

Don't lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you. — Nizar Qabbani

In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me. — 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

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body. — Nizar Qabbani

Woman does not emerge from a man's rib, not ever, it's he who emerges from her womb. — Nizar Qabbani

I gave you my whole when I could only give the quarter. And you kept your half from me when you could give your double. — Nizar Qabbani

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

And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you. — Nizar Qabbani

The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country. — Nizar Qabbani

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

Every time I kiss you
After a long separation
I feel
I am putting a hurried love letter
In a red mailbox. — Nizar Qabbani

The sword has spoke the truth - in authority and wisdom - only the sword O Damascus is certain! — Nizar Qabbani

Kill him, then hug him.
Men are more faithful when dead. — Nizar Qabbani

In the end, forgetting is nothing but turning a page in the book of life. It may seem an easy matter, but as long as you can't tear it, you will keep on stumbling upon it between each season of your life. — Nizar Qabbani

We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons — Nizar Qabbani

Days will pass, and you'll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality. — Nizar Qabbani

When I wiped you from the book of memory, I did not know I was striking out half my life — Nizar Qabbani

screen filled with symbols, only this time it was Arabic letters that meant nothing to him. He assumed they meant nothing to Raj as well, and was therefore surprised when Raj pointed out a short sequence. "This is the word for 'person' or 'human being'." Daniel stared at Raj. "You know Arabic?" "No, not really. I have read Nizar Qabbani in translation, and this word is a particularly beautiful shape, is it not?" "Still waters run deep, Raj. So you read Arabic love poetry. I wouldn't have ever guessed." Raj blushed. "Sushma is more woman than I can handle without help," he admitted. "Qabbani writes more than just love poetry. It is quite erotic. — J.C. Ryan

Before you came
the world was prose.
Now poetry is born. — Nizar Qabbani

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

During times of war.
I want to say:
I only love you,
And I cling you,
Like the peel clings to a pomegranate,
Like the tear clings to the eye,
Like the knife clings to the wound. — Nizar Qabbani

Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you. — Nizar Qabbani

There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love — Nizar Qabbani