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“أريد الصمت كي أحيا، ولكن الذي ألقاه ينطقني..”
― أحمد مطر

“Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.”
― Paul Arden

“وما رفعت نظري أول مرة لأراه حتى قبّلت الشمس وجهي العاري لأول مرة. لأوّل مرة قبلت الشمس وجهي العاري فالتهبت نفسي بمحبة الشمس ولم أعد بحاجة إلى براقعي. وكأنما أنا في غيبوبة صرخت قائلاً: " مباركون مباركون أولئك اللصوص الذين سرقوا براقعي!!" .”
― جبران خليل جبران, المجنون

“إن الخلاف في المسائل الخلافية والاجتهادية ليس مشكلة تحتاج الى حل، بل هذه التعددية هي المتنفس في أكثر الأحوال؛ لاستيعاب التنوع العقلي والنفسي والاجتماعي والبيئي، بل والمتطلبات التي تواجه الأمة، فنحن ممن يؤمن بالتعدد والتنوع، مع المحافظة على الأصول والثوابت الشرعية.”
― سلمان بن فهد العودة, شكرا أيها الأعداء

“الذي لا يتكلم لا يصمت”
― حسن عجمي

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
― Khalil Gibran

“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
― Khalil Gibran

“أمر باسمك إذ أخلو إلى نفسي
كما يمر دمشقي بأندلس”
― محمود درويش

“Blue is the color of the mind in borrow of the body; it is the color consciousness becomes when caressed; it is the dark inside of sentences, sentences which follow their own turnings inward out of sight like the whorls of a shell, and which we follow warily, as Alice after that rabbit, nervous and white, till suddenly — there! climbing down clauses and passing through ‘and’ as it opens — there — there — we’re here!... in time for tea and tantrums; such are the sentences we should like to love — the ones which love us and themselves as well — incestuous sentences — sentences which make an imaginary speaker speak the imagination loudly to the reading eye; that have a kind of orality transmogrified: not the tongue touching the genital tip, but the idea of the tongue, the thought of the tongue, word-wet to part-wet, public mouth to private, seed to speech, and speech... ah! after exclamations, groans, with order gone, disorder on the way, we subside through sentences like these, the risk of senselessness like this, to float like leaves on the restful surface of that world of words to come, and there, in peace, patiently to dream of the sensuous, and mindful Sublime.”
― William H. Gass, On Being Blue

“Sea-fever

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.”
― John Masefield, Sea Fever: Selected Poems

“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.
What are deep? the ocean and truth.”
― Christina Rossetti

“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
― Edgar Allan Poe