Fatema Ibrahim

“عيناك غابتا نخيل ساعة السحر
أو شرفتان راح ينأى عنهما القمر
عيناك حين تبسمان تورق الكروم
وترقص الأضواء...كالأقمار في نهر
يرجه المجداف وهناً ساعة السحر
كأنما تنبض في غوريهما النجوم

وتغرقان في ضباب من أسى شفيف
كالبحر سرح اليدين فوقه المساء
دفء الشتاء فيه وارتعاشة الخريف
والموت والميلاد والظلام والضياء
فتستفيق ملء روحي رعشة البكاء
ونشوة وحشية تعانق السماء
كنشوة الطفل إذا خاف من القمر”
― بدر شاكر السياب

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde