#arabic lines

[muhtesemz]

الوجع أصم..

والحنين أخرس،

والشوق لا يرى..

وأصدق ما نشعر به،

أصعب من أن يروى

Pain is deaf, longing is mute, yearning cannot see. And the truest things we feel are too hard to be told.

- Gibran Kahlil Gibran

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

{Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath/ Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, The Nest/ Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life/ Susan Sontag/ Liv Ullmann, from Changing (Knopf, 1976)/ Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to J.M. Murry, dated December 14, 1919, Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield (Penguin Classics, 1977)/ Anne Sexton,A Self-Portrait in Letters/ Anne Sexton,A Self-Portrait in Letters/ Richard Siken/ Papi/ Anais Nin/ Ghada Al-Samman/ Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings}

[p-a-p-e-r-t-o-w-n-s]

"I told you once, that only two things will have me - you and death."

قلت لك مرة واحدة، أن اثنين فقط من الأشياء سوف يكون لي . أنت و الموت .

[maihonhassan]

In Arabic they don’t say, “I love you” they say, (تقبرني) Toq-Bor-Neh that literally means, you bury me. It means you wish me to die before them, thus them burying you so you can never have to live a day without them. It is a gorgeous, painful expression of desire to spare yourself the pain of a life without a person you love.❤️‍🩹

[thedelusionalselenophile]

تعبان ، كأن الكون بتُقلُه ، بكل حكاياته وزعلُه ، واقع على كتافي

I'm tired, as if the weight of the universe, with all its stories and sadness, is on my shoulders ~

[nanamins-overtime]

قسما بعينيك التين إليها تأوي ملايين الكواكب.

I swear by your eyes in which a million planets reside.

- Bilqis, Nizar Qabbani

[astereaus]

"Even after letting go of the last bird, I hesitate. There is something in this empty cage that never gets released."

— Garous Abdolmalekain, Lean Against This Late Hour

[nabihahahahahaha]