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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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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 days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
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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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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.
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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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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 never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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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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Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
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