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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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Without hope we are lost.
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The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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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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I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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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 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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Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
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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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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 love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
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My love, I fear the silence of your hands.
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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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And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
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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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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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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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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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