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.
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language. - Mahmoud Darwish
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
- Mahmoud Darwish
If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up. - Mahmoud Darwish
If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.
We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are. - Mahmoud Darwish
We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating. - Mahmoud Darwish
Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.
We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope. - Mahmoud Darwish
We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance. - Mahmoud Darwish
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives. - Mahmoud Darwish
The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction. - Mahmoud Darwish
And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.
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… - Mahmoud Darwish
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…
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