Lebanese Author Quotes

Kahlil Gibran

Mikhail Naimy

Adunis

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

The desert came into view... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.

Hanan al-Shaykh

New York is a woman
holding, according to history,
a rag called liberty with one hand
and strangling the earth with the other.

Less possessing-less possessed.
More possessing-more possessed.
More possessed-less accessed.
Less possessed-more accessed.