Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.
Mahmoud DarwishI am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.
Mahmoud DarwishWe are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
Mahmoud Darwish