A7mred - It's Kinda Saad If You Think About It

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

“It is great when the poet, presenting his tragic hero before the admiration of men, dares to say, “Weep for him, for he deserves it.” For it is great to deserve the tears of those who are worthy to shed tears. It is great that the poet dares to hold the crowd in check, dares to castigate men, requiring that every man examine himself whether he be worthy to weep for the hero. For the waste-water of blubberers is a degradation of the holy. – But greater than all this it is that the knight of faith dares to say even to the noble man who would weep for him, “Weep not for me, but weep for thyself.””

— Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling