"We have to understand - not justify -……" — Mahmoud Darwish
"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 Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves."
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Mahmoud Darwish
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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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