Quotes from Sinan Antoon

Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves?

You were heavily armed with faith, and that made your heart a castle. My heart, by contrast, is an abandoned house whose windows are shattered and doors unhinged. Ghosts play inside it, and the winds wail. As

You are young men and not children. The idea is that art allows the child imprisoned inside the adult to come out to play and celebrate the world and its beauty." He said that art was intimately linked with immortality: a challenge to death and time, a celebration of life.

As long as there's coffee and chocolate, nothing else matters.

History is a struggle of statues and monuments, Father. I will not have a share in all of this, because I have yet to sculpt anything important. Even Saddam's huge statue in Firdaws Square was brought down right after your death. I thought I would be happy since I detested him so much, but I felt I'd been robbed of the happiness.

You think a moment is but a small speck, by it encapsulates an entire world.

We have to admit that the endings we imagine and hope for are only suggestions. Sometimes, when it is kind to us, which is rare, life adopts them. Or life's own endings resemble or are identical to the ones we imagine, and then we are overjoyed. But our endings do not belong to us.