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Don’t say that poetry, my friend, is beautiful or powerful for there is no powerful or beautiful poetry There is poetry that strikes you, secretly with the diseases of writing and schizophrenia, and you rave and your self leaves you for another
— Mahmoud Darwish A River Dies of Thirst: journals
Tags: poetry

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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Palestinian people are in love with life.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Tags: palestinian, people, life, love
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Tags: metaphor, than, stronger, reality
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.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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