Al-Mutanabbi

 أنا الذي نَظَر الأعْمی إلی أدَبي

وأسْمَعَتْ كَلِمَاتي مَنْ بِهِ صَمَمُ

....

فَالخَيْلُ وَاللَّيْلُّ والبَيْدَاءُ تَعْرِفُني

والحَرْبُ وَالضَّرْبُ والقِرطَاس والقَلمُ

أبو الطيْب المتنبي

"I am the one whose literature is seen by the blind.
And whose words are heard by the deaf.
....
The horses, the night, and the wild desert know me.
As well as war, and beating, and papyrus and pen."

-- Abou-Tayyib Al-Mutanabbi, a 1st century poet from Damascus