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... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.
Mahmoud Darwish
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Mahmoud Darwish
Age: 67 †
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
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The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.
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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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The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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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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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.
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I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
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