Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: محمود درويش) was a respected Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile.

Quotes

Rafael Narvalhas quoted8 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.’
Rafael Narvalhas quoted8 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 quoted8 months ago
‘If I write love poems, I resist the conditions that don’t allow me to write love poems.’
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