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Abu Tammam
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“If poetry could be exhausted, then it would already have been so by the collected water in your cisterns, in past times. Rather, it is the rainfall of the mind: some clouds may vanish, only to be followed by more clouds.”
Abu Tammam (804–846) said by 846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by Geert Jan van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler, The Epistle of Forgiveness, Vol. 1: A Vision of Heaven and Hell (NYU Press, 2013) p. 265
“If a man lingers too long at home, it shows on his face—so travel and refresh it! People like the sun more, I know, for not shining upon them perpetually.”
Abu Tammam (804–846) said by 846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Life and Times of Abu Tammam (2015) by Abu Bakr al-Suli, edited and translated by Beatrice Gruendler
“The sword gives truer tidings than do scriptures; its edge is what tells zeal from vanity; White blades, not the black letters on the page — these reveal misguided doubts for what they are.”
Abu Tammam (804–846) said by 846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode on the Conquest of Amorium", ll. 1-2, translated by Julia Bray, "Al-Mu'taşim's 'bridge of toil' and Abū Tammām's Amorium qaşīda", in Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions in Memory of Norman Cal…
“A victory at which Heaven threw wide its gates, which Earth put on new dress to celebrate: O battle of Amorium, from which our hopes returned engorged with milk and honey, The Muslims hast thou fixed in the ascendant, pagans and pagandom fixed in decline!”
Abu Tammam (804–846) said by 846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode on the Conquest of Amorium", ll. 12-14, translated by Julia Bray (2000) p. 50