Adonis Quotes

“I love, I love beauty
and in it I worship my follies,
the ones I found on my own,
and the ones to which I was led”
― Adonis, Adonis: Selected Poems

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"He carries in his eyes
a pearl; from the ends of days
and from the winds he takes
a spark; and from his hand,
from the islands of rain
a mountain, and creates dawn.
I know him—he carries in his eyes
the prophecy of the seas.
He named me history and the poem
that purifies a place.
I know him—he named me flood.”
― Khaled Mattawa, Adonis: Selected Poems

“What shall I say to the body I abandoned
in the rubble of the house
in which I was born?”
― Adonis, Adonis: Selected Poems

“Take my dream,
sew it, wear it,
a dress.
You made yesterday
sleep in my hands,
leading me around,
spinning me like a moan
in the sun’s carts,
a seagull soaring,
launched from my eyes.”
― Adonis, Adonis: Selected Poems

“
The earth is not a wound
but a body--- Can one travel between a wound
and a body?
Can one reside?”
― Adonis, Adonis: Selected Poems

“I imagine my love
breathing with the lungs of all things
and it reaches me
as poetry
of roses or dust

speaks softly to everything
and whispers its news to the universe
the way the wind and sun do
when they split nature’s breast
or pour the ink of day
on the earth’s book

from “Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea”
― Adonis, Adonis: Selected Poems

“The earth is not a wound
but a body--- Can one travel between a wound
and a body?Can one reside?”
― Adonis, Adonis: Selected Poems

“And his ghosts said: Let's move on
Before us the body is piling itself upon itself secret by secret
Rot is also a heart
rot is also childhood
rot is also what love is”
― Adonis, Adonis: Selected Poems

“I remember madness leaning for the first time on the mind’s pillow.
I was talking to my body then and my body was an idea I wrote in red.”
― Adonis, Adonis: Selected Poems