Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion
Posted on 04/07/2012 by Juan Cole
Since we have to go,
what is it to exist?
What is it to chase
impossible ambitions?
They’ll never pass by
anyplace with a
sense of well-being.
What is it to be deprived
both of travel and of rest?
Translated by Juan Cole
from [pdf] Whinfield 88
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