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Mahmoud Darwish
“All roads lead to you even those I took to forget you”
Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish
“A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees, they are the ribs of childhood.”
Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish
“Strangers are known by the disconnected way they gaze in the water, by their introversion and their hesitant walk.
Natives proceed with direct steps toward a clear goal.
A stranger walks in rounds, bewildered.”
Mahmoud Darwish, Almond Blossoms and Beyond. Trans. By Mohammad Shaheen

Mahmoud Darwish
“I sang in order to feel the wasted horizon in the pain of a
dove
not to explain what God says to man
I'm no prophet
I don't proclaim that my fall is an ascent”
Mahmoud Darwish, Mural

Mahmoud Darwish
“They wrote their narrative: We have returned. They wrote our narrative: They have returned to the desert. They put us on trial: Why were you born here? We said: Why was Adam born in paradise?”
Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

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