Abu Nuwas Quotes
- Critic, relent!
Your hope for repentance
Will meet with disapppointment.
For this is the life,
Not desert tents,
Not camel’s milk! - View Quote Details on Critic, relent!
Your hope for repentance
Will meet… - You, mad to expect repentance,
Tear your robe all you want;
I will never repent! - View Quote Details on You, mad to expect repentance,
Tear your robe all… - I bought abandon dear
And sold all piety for pleasure.
My own free spirit I have followed,
And never will I give up lust. - View Quote Details on I bought abandon dear
And sold all piety for…
About Abu Nuwas
Abu Nuwas (c.750 - c.810) Arab poet; Libertine homosexual, lived in Baghdad during the reigns of Caliphs Harun al-Rashid and Muhammad al-Amin. His poetry describes a life of debauchery, wine, boys and women.
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