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Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards for his works. Darwish used Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile. He has been described as incarnating and reflecting "the tradition of the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry." He also served as an editor for several literary magazines in Palestine. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. March 1941 – 9. August 2008
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Famous Mahmoud Darwich Quotes

“I am from there. I am from here.
I am not there and I am not here.
I have two names, which meet and part,
and I have two languages.
I forget which of them I dream in.”

Mahmoud Darwich

“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”

Mahmoud Darwich

Source: Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”

Mahmoud Darwich

Source: In the Presence of Absence

“My love, I fear the silence of your hands.”

Mahmoud Darwich

“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.”

Mahmoud Darwich

Source: Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

“The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.”

Mahmoud Darwich

Source: A River Dies of Thirst: journals

“Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”

Mahmoud Darwich

Source: Absent Presence

“The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.
They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth.”

Mahmoud Darwich

Source: Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

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