Nizar Qabbani

Nizar Qabbani Syrian poet and writer, born March 21 1923He died on April 30, 1998

• But I am told
  That women do not buy sad faces.
  • (100 Love Letters, sourced from "Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts" (trad. Frangieh and Brown) (1999) Three Continents Press)

quotes

• I think about you day and night the sea and the fish with their shells over the years.

• • Letters die when they are spoken Silence is in Jamal s sanctuary.

• • They want to open the world but they are unable to open a book.

• • He takes me under my arm

He plants me in one of the clouds And black rain in my eyes Showers are falling Nizar Qabbani.