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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
Mahmoud Darwish
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Mahmoud Darwish
Age: 67 †
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Al-Birweh
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Mahmoud Darwish
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... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.
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Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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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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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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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
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I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
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And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
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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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The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
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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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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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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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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 believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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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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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Without hope we are lost.
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