"We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were."
― Naguib Mahfouz
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Naguib Mahfouz
- "As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak."
- "I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
- "Events at home, at work, in the street – these are the bases for a story."
More In Poetry
- "The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity."― George Oppen
- "To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."― John Andrew Holmes
- "As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you’re always ultimately going to be saying somebody else’s words. I don’t think I’d have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I’d love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions."― Daniel Radcliffe