"And what I don't understand I grasp it……" — Mahmoud Darwish
"And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late."
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56 Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish
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Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,
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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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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
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My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism,
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When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
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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 thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very…
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We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it…
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course…
— Henry Adams
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the…
— Otto von Bismarck
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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of…
— David Bohm
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express…
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was…
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But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
— Anne Bronte
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So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked…
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