2 Quotes by Samih Sabbagh al-Buqai'ah

How I have yearned to hear ululationsOf women burdened by a thousand yearsOf longing for song and celebration.

My ancestors kept on breaking their necks searching the ground at their feet for buried treasure, and I too had found what I had sought for so long by gazing above my head and discovering my brothers from outer space who had restored my calm. Why should I be expected, alone among all my fathers and grandfathers, as I sat there on that stake, to submit my fate to the laws of nature and the rules of logic?