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1 " All wordsIn the dictionaries, letters, and novelsDied.I want to discoverA way to love youWithout words. "
― Nizar Qabbani , Arabian Love Poems
2 " I hadn't told them about you,But they saw you bathing in my eyes.I hadn't told them about you,But they saw you in my written words.The perfume of love cannot be concealed. "
3 " Your departure is not a tragedy:I am like a willow treeThat always diesWhile standing. "
4 " This is my last letterThere will be no others.This is the last grey cloudThat will rain on you,After this, you will never againKnow the rain.This is the last drop of wine in my cupThere will be no more drunkenness.This is the last letter of madness,The last letter of childhood.After me you will no longer knowThe purity of youthThe beauty of madness.I have loved youLike a child running from schoolHiding birds and poemsIn his pockets.With you I was a child ofHallucinations,Distractions,Contradictions,I was a child of poetry and nervous writing.As for you,You were a woman of Eastern waysWaiting for her fate to appearIn the lines of the coffee cups.How miserable you are, my lady,After todayYou won't be in the blue notebooks,In the pages of the letters,In the cry of the candles,In the mailman's bag.You won't beInside the children's sweetsIn the colored kites.You won't be in the pain of the lettersIn the pain of the poems.You have exiled yourselfFrom the gardens of my childhoodYou are no longer poetry. "
5 " The two yearsYou were my loverAre the two most important pagesIn the book of modern love.All the pages before and afterWere blank.These pagesAre the lines of the equatorPassing between your lips and mineThey are the measures of timeThat are usedTo set the clocks of the world. "
6 " keep silent . . the most beautiful voice ,is the talk of your hand on the table.قليل من الصمت . . ياجاهلةفأجمل من كل هذا الحديثحديث يديك على الطاولة "
7 " گریه ات را دوست دارمچهره ابرآلود و اندوهگین ات رااندوه پیوندمان میدهدآن گونه که نه تو میدانی نه منآن اشکهای روان را دوست دارمو پشت این اشکپاییز را دوست دارمبعضی زنان زیبایندو زیباتر میشوند وقتی میگریند "