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Mahmoud Darwish Inspirational Quotes (38)

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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence it breaks walls down.
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My love, I fear the silence of your hands.
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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
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I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.
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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
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I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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