Diaa Sersawi

“I choose to love this time for once
with all my intelligence

-from "Splittings”
― Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”
― Adrienne Rich, Twenty-One Love Poems.

“أي انسان يموت ،لاينتهي بنظر الذين يحبونه إلاَّ اذا غسلوه بالدموع ، الدموع هي ذرات التراب الأخيرة التي تجلّل الميت وتقول انه انتهى .”
― عبد الرحمن منيف, شرق المتوسط