Palestinian - Poet | March 13, 1941 - August 9, 2008
Palestinian people are in love with life.
Mahmoud Darwish
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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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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 believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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