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I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.
Mahmoud Darwish
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Mahmoud Darwish
Age: 67 †
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
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Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
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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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My love, I fear the silence of your hands.
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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 believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
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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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I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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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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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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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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