Ahmed Addnan Negim

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
― Anne Sexton

“ah, life—
the thing
that happens
to us
while we’re off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
& wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“الفلسطينيون كلهم شعراء. بالفطرة. قد لا يكتبون شعرًا، ولكنهم شعراء، لأنهم عرفوا شيئين اثنين هامّين. جمال الطبيعة، والمأساة. ومن يجمع بين هذين، لا بد أن يكون شاعرًا.”
― جبرا ابراهيم جبرا, السفينة