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Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish: The House Murdered

By Mahmoud Darwish

"Houses get murdered just as their
residents get murdered. . . . And the plates, spoons, toys, records, faucets, pipes, door handles, and
 the fridge, the washer, the vases, jars of olives and pickles, and canned foods, all
break as their owners broke."

Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile

By Nathalie Handal, May 2002 Issue

He expressed the notion that only poetry can bring harmony to a world devastated by war: "Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by," he has written.

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