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.

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• 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.

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a bl

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes p

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

• Mahmoud Darwish:

  Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is com