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I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
Mahmoud Darwish
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Mahmoud Darwish
Age: 67 †
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
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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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I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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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 don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.
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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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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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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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The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.
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I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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