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“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the letting go.”
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
“Say this life and let it be enough, for once.”
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
“There's nothing in this warm, vegetal dusk that is not beautiful or that will last.”
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
“ستنتهي الحرب ويتصافح القادة وتبقى تلك العجوز، تنتظر ولدها الشهيد وتلك الفتاة، تنتظر زوجها الحبيب وأولئك الأطفال، ينتظرون والدهم البطل لا أعلم من باع الوطن! ولكنني رأيتُ من دفع الثمن”
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“And if poetry is a bond between
Two hearts, it is a bond too frail:
That night words failed, I, too, was lost—
To whiskey, memory, a photograph.”
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
Two hearts, it is a bond too frail:
That night words failed, I, too, was lost—
To whiskey, memory, a photograph.”
― The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
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