Quote of the day
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
Adunis
Born: January 1, 1930 (age 95)
Bio: Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, also known by the pseudonym Adonis or Adunis, is a Syrian poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France. He has written more than twenty books in his native Arabic.
Known for:
- An Introduction to Arab Poetics (1985)
- Sufism and Surrealism (2005)
- A Time Between Ashes And Roses (2004)
- The pages of day and night (1982)
- Mihyar of Damascus, his songs (2007)