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Mahmoud Darwish [1941-2008] Palestinian

Rank: 102
Poet

Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards for his works.

Poetry, Peace, Age, Beauty, History, Hope, Smile, Trust

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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.		101
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.	Age	102
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.		103
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.	Beauty, Peace, Poetry	104
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.	Smile	105
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.	History	106
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.		107
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.		108
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.		109
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.		110
Without hope we are lost.	Hope	111
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.		112
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.	Poetry	113
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.	Peace	114
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.		115
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.	Poetry	116
I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.		117
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.	Poetry	118
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.	Poetry	119
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.		120
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'	Poetry, Trust	121
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.		122
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.		123
Palestinian people are in love with life.		124
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.	Poetry	125

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