

“If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”
― The Complete English Poems
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”
― The Complete English Poems

“He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge

“The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.”
― The Madness Vase
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.”
― The Madness Vase

“لا , لا ٔاريد ٔان يفهمني بشري ٕاذا كان فهمه ٕاياي ضرباً من العبودية المعنوية . وما ٔاكثر الذين يتوهمون ٔانهم يفهموننا لأنهم وجدوا في بعض مظاهرنا شئياً شبيهاً بما اختبروه مرة في حياتهم . وليتهم يكتفون بادعائهم ادراك ٔاسرارنا – تلك الأسرار التي نحن ذواتنا لا ندركها – ولكنهم يصموننا بعلامات و أرقام ثم يضعوننا علىٕ رف من رفوف ٔافكارهم واعتقاداتهم مثلما يفعل الصيدلي بقناني الدوية والمساحيق !”
― Love Letters: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah
― Love Letters: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah

“Sometimes I think spring lasts about fifteen minutes around here and then we're all sitting on Hell's front porch.”
― The Flower Sisters
― The Flower Sisters
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