Amal

“Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”
― Thomas Gray, Gray and Collins: Poetical Works

“أنتم لا تبكون موتاكم، أنتم تبكونكم بعدهم. تبكون ما أخذوه برحيلهم. يخلفونكم بلا جدار تتكئون عليه، وأمك حِصَّة جدارٌ، رغم تصدعاته، كان متأكم الآمن. ترك غيابها غصة في حلوقكم، لا أنتم قادرون على لفظها ولا على ابتلاعها.”
― سعود السنعوسي, فئران أمي حصة

“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not harvest.

Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle.

Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet

“أنت لا تكرهني ، أنت تكره الصورة التي كونتها عني ، وهذه الصورة ليست أنا إنما هي أنت!”
― أدونيس