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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
M. Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
Water
Visions
Depend
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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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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence it breaks walls down.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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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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My love, I fear the silence of your hands.
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Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
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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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I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
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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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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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