Thought for the Day

Love is convinced that it is the source of life,

and life is convinced that without it, love is

nothing. And in fact, nonhuman life on Earth,

which is most life, has no need for love. Love

is necessary for humans, because without it 

we are destroyers of worlds, and with it, we

still struggle not to be destroyers.

~ Fady Joudah

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Quoted from Aria Aber, "Fady Joudah: The poet on the war in Gaza changed his work" in The Yale Review, February 28, 2024 (Online)

Fady Joudah, Award-Winning Palestinian-American Poet, Writer, Translator, Co-Founder/Co-Editor, Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, Physician in Internal Medicine

Fady Joudah Profiles at Academy of American Poets, Jewish Currents, and Poetry Foundation