Sam Kassim

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“زي الهوي
زي الهوي الساري ...
و خيال الطيف

أحلي سنين العمر بينا تمر
يا نعيش هوانا حلم ليلة صيف
يا تـِتـُوه خُطانا في ليل شـِتانا المر

و لما تتلاقي الوشوش مرتين
ما بيتلاقوش يوم اللُقا التاني
عمر الوشوش ما بتبقي بعد السنين.....
نفس الوشوش دي بتبقي شئ تاني

بتبدل الأيام ملامحنا
..تـِـرعشنا
..تنعشنا
...تشوّشنا
يا تري اللي بيعيش الزمن ... إحنا
، ولاّ الزمن هو اللي بيعيشنا ؟!!

و لمّا تتلاقي الوشوش مرتين
مبيتلاقوش يوم اللقا التاني
عمر الوشوش ما بتبقي بعد السنين.....
نفس الوشوش دي بتبقي شئ تاني”
― سيد حجاب

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.
It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers.
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers--and spirit itself will stink.
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it even becometh populace.
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route thou must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.
The atmosphere rare and pure, danger near and the spirit full of a joyful wickedness: thus are things well matched.
I want to have goblins about me, for I am courageous. The courage which scareth away ghosts, createth for itself goblins--it wanteth to laugh.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
― Mark Fisher