{"id":765015,"date":"2025-11-03T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=765015"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:41:53","slug":"the-most-beautiful-quotes-by-lebanese-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/765015\/the-most-beautiful-quotes-by-lebanese-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Beautiful Quotes by Lebanese Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"    <button class=\"sideconvo-button button-compact\">         <svg         xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"         width=\"64\"         height=\"64\"         viewBox=\"0 0 64 64\"         fill=\"none\">         <g clip-path=\"url(#clip0_5407_120)\">             <mask                 id=\"mask0_5407_120\"                 style=\"mask-type:luminance\"                 maskUnits=\"userSpaceOnUse\"                 x=\"0\"                 y=\"0\"                 width=\"64\"                 height=\"64\">                 <path d=\"M64 0H0V64H64V0Z\" fill=\"white\"><\/path>             <\/mask>             <g mask=\"url(#mask0_5407_120)\">                 <path                     d=\"M38.4702 26.64L38.5252 26.775C40.3652 31.435 44.0902 35.165 48.7502 37L48.8852 37.055L48.7502 37.11C44.0902 38.95 40.3602 42.675 38.5252 47.335L38.4702 47.47L38.4152 47.335C36.5752 42.675 32.8502 38.945 28.1902 37.11L28.0552 37.055L28.1902 37C32.8502 35.16 36.5802 31.435 38.4152 26.775L38.4702 26.64ZM38.4702 14.815C38.0702 14.815 37.6702 15.035 37.5002 15.475L33.7702 24.935C32.4352 28.325 29.7502 31.01 26.3602 32.345L16.9002 36.075C16.0202 36.425 16.0202 37.67 16.9002 38.02L26.3602 41.75C29.7502 43.085 32.4352 45.77 33.7702 49.16L37.5002 58.62C37.6752 59.06 38.0752 59.28 38.4702 59.28C38.8652 59.28 39.2702 59.06 39.4402 58.62L43.1702 49.16C44.5052 45.77 47.1902 43.085 50.5802 41.75L60.0402 38.02C60.9202 37.67 60.9202 36.425 60.0402 36.075L50.5802 32.345C47.1902 31.01 44.5052 28.325 43.1702 24.935L39.4402 15.475C39.2652 15.035 38.8652 14.815 38.4702 14.815ZM14.4702 29.125L11.9802 24.57C11.9452 24.505 11.8902 24.45 11.8202 24.41L7.26516 21.92C6.62516 21.57 6.62516 20.655 7.26516 20.305L11.8202 17.815C11.8852 17.78 11.9402 17.725 11.9752 17.66L14.4652 13.105C14.8152 12.465 15.7302 12.465 16.0802 13.105L18.5702 17.66C18.6052 17.725 18.6602 17.78 18.7302 17.82L23.2852 20.31C23.9252 20.66 23.9252 21.575 23.2852 21.925L18.7302 24.415C18.6652 24.45 18.6102 24.505 18.5752 24.57L16.0852 29.125C15.7352 29.765 14.8202 29.765 14.4702 29.125Z\"                     fill=\"#fff\"><\/path>                 <path                     d=\"M38.4702 26.64L38.5252 26.775C40.3652 31.435 44.0902 35.165 48.7502 37L48.8852 37.055L48.7502 37.11C44.0902 38.95 40.3602 42.675 38.5252 47.335L38.4702 47.47L38.4152 47.335C36.5752 42.675 32.8502 38.945 28.1902 37.11L28.0552 37.055L28.1902 37C32.8502 35.16 36.5802 31.435 38.4152 26.775L38.4702 26.64Z\"                     fill=\"#fff\"><\/path>                 <path                     d=\"M32 10.7351C33.6569 10.7351 35 9.39196 35 7.73511C35 6.07825 33.6569 4.73511 32 4.73511C30.3431 4.73511 29 6.07825 29 7.73511C29 9.39196 30.3431 10.7351 32 10.7351Z\"                     fill=\"#fff\"><\/path>             <\/g>         <\/g>         <defs>             <clipPath id=\"clip0_5407_120\">                 <rect width=\"64\" height=\"64\" fill=\"white\"><\/rect>             <\/clipPath>         <\/defs>     <\/svg>        <span class=\"sideconvo_button\"  data-sideconvo-message=\"Tell me about Lebanese authors\" data-sideconvo-mode=\"SPEAK\" data-sideconvo-customCTATitle=\"Want to discover Lebanese authors?\" data-sideconvo-customCTAPlacement=\"TITLE_TAG\">             Want to discover Lebanese authors?        <\/span>         <div class=\"hoverEffect\">             <div><\/div>         <\/div>     <\/button>     <style>      <\/style>    <p>Lebanese poetry has always carried the rhythm of the land. Here are some of the most beautiful quotes by Lebanese poets that you&#8217;ll fall in love with.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-mikhail-naimy\">1. Mikhail Naimy<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mikhaelnaimy.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-765040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mikhaelnaimy.webp 428w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mikhaelnaimy-223x250.webp 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>&#8220;Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. <\/p>    <p>You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.&#8221;<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>\u2014 <em>The Book of Mirdad<\/em>, published in 1948<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-may-ziadeh\">2. May Ziadeh<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mayziadeh.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-765043\" style=\"width:571px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mayziadeh.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mayziadeh-600x315.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mayziadeh-250x131.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mayziadeh-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>&#8220;Lebanon,<\/p>    <p>you made me. Your moody nights<br>put the darkness in my eyes<br>and laid a vein of lightning in my soul.&#8221;<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>\u2014 <em>Goodbye, Lebanon<\/em>, no exact date of publishing but can be placed roughly in the 1910s-1920s<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-talal-haidar\">3. Talal Haidar<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"406\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talalhaidar_964945.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-765046\" style=\"width:429px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talalhaidar_964945.jpg 406w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/talalhaidar_964945-250x210.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>\u201cAlone, they remain, like the elderflower<\/p>    <p>Alone they are, collecting the leaves of time.<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>They lock the forest behind them,<\/p>    <p>And like the rain, they knock on my door.&#8221;<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>\u2014 <em>Wahdon<\/em>, published around 1966 and sung by Fairuz in 1979. Did you know this song was sampled by Drake? Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/761284\/drake-samples-fairuz-in-unreleased-track-from-his-new-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> to read more about it.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4-khalil-hawi\">4. Khalil Hawi<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Khalil-Hawi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-765049\" style=\"width:418px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Khalil-Hawi.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Khalil-Hawi-250x156.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>&#8220;I have known how the minutes stretch their legs<\/p>    <p>How they freeze, and change into ages&#8221;<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>\u2014 <em>The Cave<\/em>, a poem from his poetry collection <em>The Threshing Floors of Hunger<\/em> published in 1965<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>He also has a beautiful poem called <em>The Bridge<\/em>, which goes as follows:<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>&#8220;They cross the bridge at dawn lightly<br>My ribs stretched for them a strong bridge<br>From the caves of the East, from the swamp of the East<br>To the new East.&#8221;<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>However, it doesn&#8217;t do the original Arabic version justice:<\/p>    <p>\u064a\u064e\u0639\u0628\u0631\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0650\u0633\u0631\u064e \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0628\u062d\u0650 \u062e\u0641\u0627\u0641\u064b\u0627&#8221;<br>\u0623\u064e\u0636\u0644\u064f\u0639\u064a \u0627\u0645\u062a\u064e\u062f\u064e\u0651\u062a\u0652 \u0644\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0645 \u062c\u0650\u0633\u0652\u0631\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u0637\u064a\u062f\u0652<br>\u0645\u0650\u0646 \u0643\u064f\u0647\u0648\u0641\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u0642\u0650, \u0645\u0650\u0646 \u0645\u064f\u0633\u062a\u0646\u0652\u0642\u0639\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u064e\u0631\u0642\u0650<br>&#8220;\u0625\u0650\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u064e\u0651\u0631\u0642\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u062f\u064a\u062f\u0652<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-6-gibran-khalil-gibran\">6. Gibran Khalil Gibran<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kahlil_Gibran_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-765052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kahlil_Gibran_1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kahlil_Gibran_1-213x250.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>&#8220;Do not love half lovers<br>Do not entertain half friends<br>Do not indulge in works of the half talented<br>Do not live half a life<br>and do not die a half death&#8221;<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>Not found in his canonical works but is found as an independent poem.<\/p>    <div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>    <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-7-said-akl\">7. Said Akl<\/h3>    <p><\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"635\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Said_Akl.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-765055\" style=\"width:479px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Said_Akl.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Said_Akl-470x600.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Said_Akl-196x250.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Said_Akl-600x765.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/figure>    <p><\/p>    <p>&#8220;I will build for you each night<br>A palace luminous<br>With whole blocks of emerald<br>And diamond stones.<\/p>    <p>Shall it be skyblue as your eyes,<br>Or green as your wishes:<br>Be, and the palace too shall be.&#8221;<\/p>    <p><\/p>    <p>\u2014 <em>The Palace of My Beloved<\/em>, published in the mid-twentieth century. 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