Arabian Love Poems Quotes

“This is my last letter
There will be no others.
This is the last grey cloud
That will rain on you,
After this, you will never again
Know the rain.
This is the last drop of wine in my cup
There will be no more drunkenness.

This is the last letter of madness,
The last letter of childhood.
After me you will no longer know
The purity of youth
The beauty of madness.
I have loved you
Like a child running from school
Hiding birds and poems
In his pockets.
With you I was a child of
Hallucinations,
Distractions,
Contradictions,
I was a child of poetry and nervous writing.
As for you,
You were a woman of Eastern ways
Waiting for her fate to appear
In the lines of the coffee cups.

How miserable you are, my lady,
After today
You won't be in the blue notebooks,
In the pages of the letters,
In the cry of the candles,
In the mailman's bag.
You won't be
Inside the children's sweets
In the colored kites.
You won't be in the pain of the letters
In the pain of the poems.
You have exiled yourself
From the gardens of my childhood
You are no longer poetry.”
― Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts

“keep silent . .
the most beautiful voice ,
is the talk of your hand
on the table.

قليل من الصمت . . ياجاهلة
فأجمل من كل هذا الحديث
حديث يديك
على الطاولة”
― Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts

“I hadn't told them about you,
But they saw you bathing in my eyes.
I hadn't told them about you,
But they saw you in my written words.
The perfume of love cannot be concealed.”
― Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts

“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: Full Arabic and English Texts

“Your departure is not a tragedy:
I am like a willow tree
That always dies
While standing.”
― Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts

“The two years
You were my lover
Are the two most important pages
In the book of modern love.
All the pages before and after
Were blank.
These pages
Are the lines of the equator
Passing between your lips and mine
They are the measures of time
That are used
To set the clocks of the world.”
― Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts

“When you find a man
Who transforms
Every part of you
Into poetry,
Who makes each one of your hairs
Into a poem,
When you find a man
Capable,
As lam,
Of bathing and adorning you
With poetry,
I will beg you
To follow him without hesitation.
It is not important
That you belong to me or him
But that you belong to poetry.”
― Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts

“گریه ات را دوست دارم
چهره ابرآلود و اندوهگین ات را
اندوه پیوندمان می‌دهد
آن گونه که نه تو می‌دانی نه من
آن اشک‌های روان را دوست دارم
و پشت این اشک
پاییز را دوست دارم
بعضی زنان زیبایند
و زیباتر می‌شوند وقتی می‌گریند”
― نزار قبانی, عشق با صدای بلند: گزینه اشعار نزار قبانی

“Your love took me
To the land of wonder.
Your love attacked me
Like the scent of a woman entering an elevator.
Your love surprised me
While I sat in a cafe with a poem,
And made me forget the poem.

Your love attacked me
Like a wild animal.
Surprising me
While I sat on top of my suitcase,
Waiting for the train of days.

I forgot the train,
I forgot the days,
While I traveled with you
To the land of wonder.”
― Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts

“Your love took me
To the land of wonder
Your love attacked me
Like the scent of a woman entering an elevator
Your love surprised me
While I sat in a cafe with a poem,
And made me forget the poem
Your love attacked me
Like a wild animal.
Surprising me
While I sat on top of my suitcase
Waiting for the train of days.
I forgot the train, I forgot the days,
While I traveled with you
To the land of wonder.”
― Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts

“I want to make you a unique alphabet
In it, I want
The rhythm of the rain,
The dust of the moon,
The sadness of the grey clouds,
The pain of the fallen willow leaves
Under the wheels of autumn.”
― Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts

“Take the sea,
The boats,
The passengers.
But continue to be my lover.
Take all my possessions,
I am only a poet.
All my wealth is
In my notebooks
And in your beautiful eyes.”
― Nizar Qabbani, Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts