"I want to find a language that transforms……" — Mahmoud Darwish
"I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets."
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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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