#nizar qabbani quotes

[srvyxhi]

when he says :

he wants kids to "continue his bloodline"

but nizar qabbani wrote :

"Give me a daughter with your stubborn heart, or your even temper. Give our children your dark-bright eyes, or your enchanted smile. So that even when we are gone, the world will find within them all the reasons I loved you."

[uaravsh]

Give me a daughter with your stubborn heart, or your even temper. Give our children your dark-bright eyes, or your enchanted smile. So that even when we are gone, the world will find within them all of the reasons why I loved you.

- Nizar Qabbani

[thesleepyblueocean]

All words In the dictionaries, letters, and novels Died. I want to discover A way to love you Without words.

Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems

[coffeebirbsdarkacademia]

It's not shame if a man learns something from a woman's heart which makes him more gentle and human

Nizar Qabbani 

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Nizar qabbani/ Rumi

[oldschoolaaisha]

You have a lot in common with the moon; its light and its beauty, and its distance from me.

[wedarkacademia]

when Nizar Qabbani said, "The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it" it hit me so damn hard

[saintsebastiensbf]

Jane Austen, Emma

Sufjan Stevens, Futile Devices

Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf

Hozier, Shrike

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Sierra DeMulder, Your Love Finds Its Way Back

Nizar Qabbani

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”

Katherine Mansfield

[perfectquote]

Don’t lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still loves you.

Nizar Qabbani

[feral-ballad]

Forgive me if I loved you so violently and so madly, for violence is my weapon to write and my weapon when I love. And madness is the last gold ring I place on your fingers.

Nizar Qabbani, tr. by Nayef al-Kalali, from Republic of Love: Selected Poems; “Love of 1994”

[srvyxhi]

when a guy says "i'm not like your ex"

but nizar qabbani wrote "i do not resemble your other lovers, my lady. should another give you a cloud, i give you rain. should he give you a lantern, i will give you the moon. should he give you a branch, i will give you the trees, and if another gives you a ship, i shall give you the journey"

[uaravsh]

You still ask me about the day of my birth

So write down what you don't know

The day you declared your love

Is the day of my birth.

- Nizar Qabbani

[metamorphesque]

I knew when I said I love you that I was inventing a new alphabet for a city where no one could read

Nizar Qabbani, Between Us

[lunamonchtuna]

— Nizar Qabbani, from “I am accused”; Arabian Love Poems (tr. by Bassam Frangieh & Clementina Brown)

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Tokyo Story (1953), Dir. Yasujirô Ozu / Nizar Qabbani}

[oldschoolaaisha]

You have a lot in common with the moon; its light and its beauty, and its distance from me.