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Abū Adūnīs Ahmad Al-Ādāb Al-Ahrām al-Qays al-Qays's Al-Shi'r allegorical Āmina Anatolia Ancyra Arab poets Arab world Arabic language Arabic literature Arabic poetry audience become Beirut Beloved Berkeley Boullata Cairo Cilician Gates Constantinople critical culture Dār Darwish desert discourse Divine Dīwān Ibrāhīm Egypt Egyptian elegy Eloquent Peasant film fragmentation Gibran Hānī Hānī's Hāzim's heart Hijāzī human I. A. Richards Ibrāhīm Tūqān Imru Islamic Ithaca Jabrā journey Jubrān Kahlil Kahlil Gibran Khalil language Lazarus Lebanese Lebanon literary Mahmūd Modern Arabic Literature Modern Arabic Poetry Mounah Khouri Mu'allaqa Muhammad Muslim mystical myth narrative Nasser Nasser's death novel Palestine Palestinian Pharaonic play poem poet's poetic political pre-Islamic Professor Prophet prose Qur'an Ramzī Rensi rhyme romantic Rūmī Rūmī's Şalāḥ Şāyigh Shādī Soul spirit story symbol T. S. Eliot Tāhā Husayn Tamīma Tawāhīn Bayrūt Tawfiq theater tion tradition translation troupe verse voice words writing Yūsuf
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Page 44 - Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you're destined for. But don't hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you're old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you've gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Page 44 - Hope your voyage is a long one. May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, what joy, you come into harbors seen for the first time: may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, sensual perfume of every...
Page 44 - May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, what joy, you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time; may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, sensual perfume of every kind — as many sensual perfumes as you can; and may you visit many Egyptian cities to learn and go on learning from their scholars.