0 ratings (0.0 avg)
0 reviews

Matthew Pocock

Add friend

Matthew’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (0)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (0)

did-not-finish‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Matthew’s Quotes

“Knowledge is not seeing the visible; knowledge is seeing what lies behind it: the invisible. It is knowing the internal nature of objects.”
― Adonis

3 likes

“Afterlife is about living in people's heart, not in some fictitious paradise. Do something so impossibly human that the humans aren't able to forget you ever.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

tags: afterlife, altruistic, heaven-and-hell, humanism, immortality, kingdom-of-god, life-after-death, selflessness, service-of-humanity, theology

2 likes

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you
Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

tags: love, love-poetry, nizar-qabbani, poetry, qabbani

6 likes

“Image and universe are clouds that cover the sun of meaning, but are, at the same time, a way towards it.”
― Adonis

2 likes

“هذي دمشق.. وهذي الكأس والراح
إني أحب... وبعـض الحـب ذباح
أنا الدمشقي.. لو شرحتم جسدي
لسـال منه عناقيـدٌ.. وتفـاح
و لو فتحـتم شراييني بمديتكـم
سمعتم في دمي أصوات من راحوا
زراعة القلب.. تشفي بعض من عشقو
وما لقلـبي –إذا أحببـت جـراح

This is Damascus... and this is a glass of spirit (comfort)
I am in love... but I am aware of the fact that certain kinds of love can slaughter you in wrath
I am a Damascene... if you dissect me into halves
You will have but grapes... and apples falling in your path
Open my veins with scalpels
Hear ancestral chants
If heart transplants... can cure some of the passionate
Why does mine stay torn in half then?”
― Nizar Qabbani

tags: poetry, syrian

4 likes

More of Matthew’s quotes…