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Join the roomAbu Nuwas fue un poeta árabe clásico y el principal representante de la poesía moderna (muhdath) que se desarrolló durante los primeros años del Califato Abasí. También entró en la tradición folclórica, apareciendo varias veces en Las mil y una noches.
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“There are no poems on wine equal to my own, and to my amatory compositions all others must yield.”
“ألا فاسقِني خمراً، وقل لي: هيَ الخمرُ ولا تسقني سرّاً إذا أمكن الجهرُ”
“دَعْ عَنْكَ لَوْمِي فَإنَّ اللَّوْمَ إغْرَاءُ”
“He played with sacred formulae, such as the call to prayer: "Come to prayer!" is rendered, in one profane turn, "Come to sleep-together!"”
“In an ebullient exchange with the Baghdadi singing-girl ‘Inan he wrote: "Gorgeous one! – God has made your face a qibla for me, /So allow me to pray toward your face, and lets have a kiss." Here "kiss" (qubla) and "the direction of prayer" (qibla) are made to rhyme, an almost inevitable rhyming couplet.”
“The following complaint sets perhaps the smuttiest tone about the poet’s detainment: "al-Amin, I languish in the sodomites' prison and fear being buggered. Do you wish them to bugger your very own poet?"”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
