Mahmoud Darwish Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Hate, Israel, Lovers

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• When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Age, Emotion

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• May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Names, May, Mercy

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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• I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

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  Strong, Israel, Profound

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• I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Children, Responsibility, Wanted

  "Poet of the Arab world" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002.

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• The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast
  it can illuminate the nights.
  With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light
  and with a gardenia's breath it can revive a homeland!

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Girl, Night, Light

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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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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  Mother, Writing, Thinking

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• ... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Song, Essentials, Poet

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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.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Book, Progress, Firsts

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• For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Israel, Identity, Tension

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