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Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of my father's house. Take me to your vineyard. Let me meet your mother. Perfume me with basil water. Arrange me on silver dishes, comb me, imprison me in your name, let love kill me.
— Mahmoud Darwish Unfortunately
Tags: the-death-of-the-phoenix, poetry, middle-east

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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Tags: occupation, inspiration, poetry, good
Palestinian people are in love with life.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Tags: palestinian, people, life, love
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Tags: metaphor, than, stronger, reality
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Tags: feel, think, i-am, mother
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Tags: nothing, terrorism
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