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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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My love, I fear the silence of your hands.
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And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.
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Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
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I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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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 wish I were a candle in the darkness.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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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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I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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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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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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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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I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
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The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.
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