Abu Nuwas Quotes and Quotation

(c.750 - c.810) Arab poet; Libertine homosexual, lived in Baghdad during the reigns of Caliphs Harun al-Rashid and Muhammad al-Amin. His poetry describes a life of debauchery, wine, boys and women.

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Critic, relent!
Your hope for repentance
Will meet with disapppointment.
For this is the life,
Not desert tents,
Not camel’s milk!
- Diwan, 11-12
You, mad to expect repentance,
Tear your robe all you want;
I will never repent!
- Diwan, 11-12
I bought abandon dear
And sold all piety for pleasure.
My own free spirit I have followed,
And never will I give up lust.
- Diwan, 164