World’s Poetry in Arabic

EPISODE 8

"Tonight, I Can Write the Saddest Lines"

March 14, 2019

A poem inspired by poet Pablo Neruda’s famous quote – Tonight, I can write the saddest lines – and explained by the Qatari poet Abdel Hamid Al-Youssef.

A space in the world of poetry. How poets of humanity expressed their love for life, how they wrote their perceptions of societies and how they immortalized with words human pain, joy and dreams.

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