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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

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Nizar Qabbani
Age: 75 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 21
Died: 1998
Died: April 30
Diplomat
Poet
Writer
Sham city
Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani
Words
Fled
Woman
Adjectives
Language
Gathered
Use
Languages
Grammarians
Nothing
Lover
Linguists
Men
Lovers
Suitcase
Love
Loved
Desiring
Lying
Suitcases

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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.'
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And all the countries seemed the same, That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.
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And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
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O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me.
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Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.
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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
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never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs
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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.
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