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“طوبى لمن طعِموا خُبزه..

في الزمانِ الحسنْ

وأداروا له الظَّهرَ

يوم المِحَن!

ولنا المجدُ - نحنُ الذينَ وقَفْنا

(وقد طَمسَ اللهُ أسماءنا!)

نتحدى الدَّمارَ..

ونأوي الى جبلٍِ لا يموت

(يسمونَه الشَّعب!)

نأبي الفرارَ..

ونأبي النُزوحْ!

كان قلبي الذي نَسجتْه الجروحْ

كان قَلبي الذي لَعنتْه الشُروحْ

يرقدُ - الآن - فوقَ بقايا المدينه

وردةً من عَطنْ

هادئاً..

بعد أن قالَ "لا" للسفينهْ

.. وأحب الوطن!”
― أمل دنقل, أمل دنقل: الأعمال الكاملة

“ربما ننفق كل العمر كي نثقب ثغرة..ليمر النور للأجيال مرة”
― أمل دنقل

“I thought I was going to die. I wanted to die. And I thought if I was going to die I would die with you.
Someone like you, young as I am, I saw so many dying near me in the last year. I didn’t feel scared. I
certainly wasn’t brave just now. I thought to myself, We have this villa this grass, we should have lain
down together, you in my arms, before we died. I wanted to touch that bone at your neck, collarbone,
it’s like a small hard wing under your skin. I wanted to place my fingers against it. I’ve always liked flesh
the colour of rivers and rocks or like the brown eye of a Susan, do you know what that flower is? Have
you seen them? I am so tired, Kip, I want to sleep. I want to sleep under this tree, put my eye against
your collarbone I just want to close my eyes without thinking of others, want to find the crook of a tree
and climb into it and sleep. What a careful mind! To know which wire to cut. How did you know? You
kept saying I don’t know I don’t know, but you did. Right? Don’t shake, you have to be a still bed for
me, let me curl up as if you were a good grandfather I could hug, I love the word ‘curl,’ such a slow
word, you can’t rush it...”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera