Radiant spring has come to you, strutting and smiling with…
Quote
Radiant spring has come to you, strutting and smiling with beauty, almost ready to speak.
Arabic original
أتاك الربيع الطلق يختال ضاحكًا من الحسن، حتى كاد أن يتكلما.
What it means
Spring becomes a joyful person who walks, smiles and almost speaks. This personification makes nature’s renewal vivid, rather than describing the season as a static landscape.
The story behind this quote
The line is attributed to al-Buhturi and quoted in Sayyid Qutb’s Books and Personalities, in a chapter on poetry. The linked source is that textual witness, not a direct edition of the Diwan.
The verbs give spring the movement of a living being. Its smile connects beauty with visible joy, and speech appears as the final stage of that animation. The passage shows poetic language transforming the perception of a season into an encounter with a presence.
The source
ديوان البحتري، قصيدة في وصف الربيع, مطلع القصيدة، كما أورده سيد قطب في «كتب وشخصيات» (1946)
The text appears in the indicated source. A traditional attribution remains distinct from proof of authorship: see the context.