The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.
Mahmoud DarwishPoetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.
Mahmoud DarwishStanding here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.
Mahmoud Darwish