Quotes From "Unfortunately It Was Paradise: Selected Poems" By Mahmoud Darwish

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Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of my father's house. Take me to your vineyard. Let me meet your mother. Perfume me with basil water. Arrange me on silver dishes, comb me, imprison me in your name, let love kill me. Mahmoud Darwish
I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an...
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I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold Mahmoud Darwish
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I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them asingle word: Home. Mahmoud Darwish