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.
We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope. - Mahmoud Darwish
We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.
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.
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance. - Mahmoud Darwish
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
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…
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.
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