Quotes from some of my fav poets
A thread:

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided on silence  -Nizar Qarbani

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream -Khalil Gibran

Raise your words not voice for it's rain that grows flowers not thunder -Rumi

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes to proud to weep, too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself -Khalil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest of souls for the most massive characters are seared with scars -Khalil Gibran

The Rose's rarest essence lives in it's thorns -Rumi

Some are like the moon, good looking but only when they're away from you -Nizar Qabbani

A deserted heart has no choice but to depart -Yasser Hareb

If you heart is a volcano how do you expect flowers to bloom?

Faith is an oasis of the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking -Khalil Gibran

Without hope we are lost -Mahmoud Darwish

If you associate with eagles you will learn how to soar to great heights but if you run with dogs you will only learn how to bark

What you seek is seeking you -Rumi

You were born with wings why do you prefer to crawl through life? -Rumi

Where there's ruin, there's hope for treasure -Rumi

My lover asks me, "what's the difference between me and the sky?" the difference, my love, is that when you laugh I forget about the sky -Nizar Qabbani

Nothing is harder on a soul than the smell of dreams while they're evaporating -Mahmoud Darwish

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself -Rumi

And I tell myself, a moon will raise from my darkness -Mahmoud Darwish

If you want to kill someone, conquer their heart then leave them slowly between madness and death -Nizar Qabbani

No night is long for us to dream twice -Mahmoud Darwish

Kill him then hug him, men are more faithful when dead -Nizar Qabbani

When I love, water gushes from my fingers, grass grows on my tongue. When I love I become time outside all time -Nizar Qabbani

I am yours, don't give myself back to me -Rumi

Had I told the sea what I felt for you, it would've left it's shores, it's shells, it's fish and followed me -Nizar Qabbani

One day you will ask me which is important? Your life or mine? I will say mine and you will walk away from me not knowing that you are my life -Khalil Gibran

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and winds long to play with your hair -Khalil Gibran

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror -Khalil Gibran

If you see the tooth of a lion do not assume the lion is smiling at you -Al-Mutanabbi

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray -Rumi

Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of the secret life we failed to notice -Mahmoud Darwish