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Mahmoud Darwish

A River Dies of Thirst

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  • Rafael Narvalhas quoted2 months ago
    ‘I know they’re strong and can invade and kill anyone. But they can’t break or occupy my words.’
  • Rafael Narvalhas quoted2 months ago
    ‘If I write love poems, I resist the conditions that don’t allow me to write love poems.’
  • Rafael Narvalhas quoted2 months ago
    Poetry cannot afford ‘to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.’
  • Rafael Narvalhas quoted2 months ago
    ‘In the midst of what is going on now, it is hard, when you sit down at a desk, to feel that morning after morning spent fiddling with words and rhythms is a justified activity.’
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted5 months ago
    I didn’t see Jews as devils or angels, but as human beings. I always humanise the other. I will continue to humanise the enemy. Poems take the side of love not war.
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted5 months ago
    ‘If you go on writing such poetry,’ he said, ‘I’ll stop your father working in the quarry.’7

    So of course he went on.
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted5 months ago
    One thing that occupation does is threaten a sense of self:
  • Arooma Zehrahas quoted5 months ago
    ‘I carry exile everywhere, as I carry my homeland,’ Darwish said once. ‘Exile is not a geographic state.’
  • .has quoted2 years ago
    Haifa says to me: ‘From now on, you are you!’
  • .has quoted2 years ago
    Did somebody once say that the master of words is the master of place? This is neither vanity nor a game. It is the poet’s way of defending the value of words, and the stability of place in a language which is vowelised and therefore mobile.
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