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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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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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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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Without hope we are lost.
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I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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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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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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My love, I fear the silence of your hands.
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Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
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My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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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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Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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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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I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
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