Eva Khalil

“We both know it is too tempting
to leave a trail wherever you go:
an echo into the dark screaming
‘I was here, I was here and I took in
as much as I could.”
― Schuyler Peck

“In human closeness there is a secret edge,
Nor love nor passion can pass it above,
Let lips with lips be joined in silent rage,
And hearts be burst asunder with the love.

And friendship, too, is powerless plot,
And so years of bliss with noble tends,
When your heart is free and known not,
The slow languor of the earthy sense.

And they who strive to reach this edge are mad,
But they who reached are shocked with anguish hard -
Now you know why beneath your hand
You do not feel the beating of my heart.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“هناك دائماً شخص يقف عند الهاوية, وعندما أقترب أنا من السقوط يرفع ذراعه ثم يصفعني بقوة, فأهرول بعيداً, بينما أهرول أسأله : ولماذا تركتني أصل إلى هذة النقطة؟ فيقول: لكي لا تعود أبداً!”
― عمر طاهر, إذاعة الأغاني: سيرة شخصية للغناء

“Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure.
The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping,
And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.”
― Anna Akhmatova, Poems of Akhmatova