Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

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• Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,
• One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
• I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
• May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
• I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
• My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
• Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism,
• When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
• I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.
• I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to…
• We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
• Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
• Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
• On this earth there is that which deserves life.
• Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.
• 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…
• We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.
• We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as…
• And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

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