Poets/Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish

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I have a seat in the abandoned theater …

Mahmoud Darwish

If I were another on the road, I would not have looked …

Mahmoud Darwish

In her absence I created her image: out of the earthly …

Mahmoud Darwish

In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls, …

Mahmoud Darwish

I am a woman. No more and no less …

Mahmoud Darwish

The cypress broke like a minaret, and slept on …

Mahmoud Darwish

The horse fell off the poem …

Mahmoud Darwish

Don’t believe our outlines, forget them …

Mahmoud Darwish

To our land, …

Mahmoud Darwish

A stranger on the riverbank, like the river ... water …

Mahmoud Darwish

The night sits wherever you are. Your night …

Mahmoud Darwish

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