بالمناسبة
Don't get me wrong, romantic poetry and songs existed for as long as poetry and songs were around, and they are beautiful and must be cherished. But they were merely entertainment, lovely metaphors, and fairy tales, not a guidance for how to live one's life in the way they are used now.
Also, I definitely don't wanna be understood as a moralist who calls for letting go of 'western, immoral love' and return to the haven of religion. I think we're obviously beyond this point anyways.

وَتِلْكَ الْأَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنَ النَّاسِ

[سورة آل عمران]

Do you tell me, friends, that there is no dispute over taste? But all life is a dispute over taste.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

- Karl Marx

Latin: nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.

English: There was no great genius, without an element of madness.

- Aristotle

In a related note:

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. 

- William Shakespeare

من أشوف بوستاتي القديمة

Latin: Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

English: Kill them all, God knows those who are his. (Or: kill them all and let God sort them out).

هاي بالقرن الـ 13 أو هيج شي صارت حملة صليبية حاصر بيها الجيش الصليبي مدينة Béziers بجنوب فرنسا. فالقائد العسكري واجه مشكلة هي أنّه شلون رح يميز بين الكاثوليك المؤمنين حتى يعفو عنهم، وبين الكفار المهرطقين حتى يقتلهم. الحل مالته جان "اقتل الجميع واترك للّهِ أمرَ التمييزِ بينهم"

Latin: calamus gladio fortior.

English: The pen is mightier than the sword.

بالمقابل، أبو تمّام يكول:

السَيفُ أَصدَقُ أَنباءً مِنَ الكُتُبِ
في حَدِّهِ الحَدُّ بَينَ الجِدِّ وَاللَعِبِ

بيضُ الصَفائِحِ لا سودُ الصَحائِفِ
في مُتونِهِنَّ جَلاءُ الشَكِّ وَالرِيَبِ

Latin: Caesar non supra grammaticos.

English: Caesar has no authority over the grammarians.

Orwell and his 1984, America and its trigger warnings, gender pronouns, and new language would beg to differ