Al-Mutanabbi: Defiantly live, or in honour die, Midst slashing blades and banners flying high.

Defiantly live, or in honour die, Midst slashing blades and banners flying high. — Al-Mutanabbi

Defiantly live, or in honour die, Midst slashing blades and banners flying high.

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وَما ضَرَّها خَلقٌ بِغَيرِ مَخالِبٍ *** وَقَد خُلِقَت أَسيافُهُ وَالقَوائِمُ — Al-Mutanabbi
A young soul in my ageing body […] Hard biter in a toothless mouth is she. — Al-Mutanabbi
الخَيْلُ وَاللّيْلُ وَالبَيْداءُ تَعرِفُني وَالسّيفُ وَالرّمحُ والقرْطاسُ وَالقَ — Al-Mutanabbi
إِنَّ السِلاحَ جَميعُ الناسِ تَحمِلُهُ وَلَيسَ كُلُّ ذَواتِ المِخلَبِ السَبُعُ — Al-Mutanabbi
Does anyone kill as the result of reasoning? People only kill by an impulse of b — Émile Zola
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've said I'm not afraid of death, and that's true. Dying, though, is another ma — K. J. Parker
Encyclopedic article on Death on Wikipedia — Living Will
are like shadows — substantial enough until we try to grasp them. — Samuel Butler
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln — Abraham Lincoln
Cette longue et cruelle maladie qu'on appele la vie. That long and cruel malady — Deschamps.
On a day — alack the day! — Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passi — William Shakespeare