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Hanna Abi Akl QUOTES

Hanna Abi Akl QUOTES

1 " Not all writers are crazy. Only the ones who are serious enough about their craft. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , A Road Away From Home

2 " For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , A Road Away From Home

3 " Now
Even the best pages
End
In dust "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Diary in Poems

4 " and do remember:
i have bathed in rivers of
darkness and lived in
houses fit for death
at the edge of life "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Correspondence

5 " Honey,
I write
The dirty
Way
I’m not afraid
Of going
Into the darkest
Corners
Of the
Word "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Vitality

6 " I’d watched that girl hold onto a lot of things, but not quite like she held onto a bottle of wine. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

7 " i fear as much the long, slow
suffering as the
thunderous, sudden
end "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Correspondence

8 " The verses are eternal, darling,
But I am not "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Diary in Poems

9 " As he got back on the highway, the sun was rising from the east. Somehow, he knew he’d make it through the day. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , A Road Away From Home

10 " I could hear the echo of chants bursting through the apartment walls depicting the loser that had come to be and reside within them. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , It's a Big Big World

11 " you abandon yourself
in a cavity of pain
a butterfly in
a hurricane: vital,
fragile and obscene "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Correspondence

12 " I was in love
With every part of her
The parts
I knew
And the parts
I didn’t "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Diary in Poems

13 " Dear god, it seems that I find it now easier to answer to the smell of booze and cheap women than good faith and common sense. "

― Hanna Abi Akl , A Road Away From Home

14 " Our lips
Held the words
But our mouths
Wouldn’t utter
Them "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Vitality

15 " show me the city
that does not mourn its fallen
whose pillars embrace
white coffins and freeze
time and distort space "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Correspondence

16 " I retain
Those small
Elements
In bottles –
And the bottle caps
Are just the trail
With no clear
Beginning "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Vitality

17 " Let me feel
The beating of your heart
So that I
May feel again "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Diary in Poems

18 " Going
Back and
Forth
Between
Here
And the valley
Of the dead
To seek
Hidden answers
To eternal
Questions "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Vitality

19 " I look into your heart
And burdening past
Like sweet sunshine
Reflected on the morning drops
Of dew "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Diary in Poems

20 " Throwing away
Compassion
Care
And kindness
We slowly seep
Into rotting sewers "

― Hanna Abi Akl , Diary in Poems