Manel

“سيري ببطء، يا حياة، لكي أَراكِ بِكامل النقْصَان حولي. كم نسيتكِ في خضمٌكِ باحثا عنٌي وعنكِ. وكلَّما أدركتُ سرًا منكِ قلتُ بقسوة: ما أَجهلَكْ! قل للغياب: نَقَصْتَني وأَنا حضرت لأكملكْ”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Almond Blossoms and Beyond

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
― Mary Oliver

“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I go out
to the pale dunes, to look over
the empty spaces
of the wilderness.
For something is there,
something is there when nothing is there but itself,
that is not there when anything else is.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems