I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

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• Mahmoud Darwish:

  Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

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

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  When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from b

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  Without hope we are lost.

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  The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better th

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  Palestinian people are in love with life.

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence;

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.