Mahmoud Darwish Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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 be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.”
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“If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.”
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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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“Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.”
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“Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.”
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“Palestinian people are in love with life.”
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“Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.”
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“We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.”
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“And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.”
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“And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.”
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“My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller”
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“Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,”
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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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“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”
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“I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland..”
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“We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”
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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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“We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”
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“I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.”
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“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”
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“My love, I fear the silence of your hands.”
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“Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”
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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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“If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.”
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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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“On this earth there is that which deserves life.”
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“For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.”
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“To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.”
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“I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.”
-- Mahmoud Darwish
