Famous quotes containing the words ahmed, hassan, life and/or death:
“I saw the Arab map.
It resembled a mare shuffling on,
dragging its history like saddlebags,
nearing its tomb and the pitch of hell.”
—Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930)
“Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.”
—Ihab Hassan (b. 1925)
“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“The death of Satan was a tragedy
For the imagination.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)