Mahmoud Darwish (13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He won numerous awards for his works. Darwish used Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile. He also served as an editor for several literary magazines in Palestine.
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I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that has no end and no beginning, no purpose and no goal. I do not speak to you, and you do not speak to me; we listen only to the music of silence. Silence is the friend's trust of friend, imagination's self-confidence between rain and rainbow. A rainbow is inspiration provoking the poet, uninvited, the infatuation of the poet with the prose of the Quran. Which of your Lord's blessings do you disown? We are absent, you and I; we are present, you and I. And absent. Which of your Lord's blessings do you disown?
منبهاً إلى ما يتساقط من أحلامى، أَمنع عطشي من الإسراف فى طلب الماء من السراب. أعترفُ بأنى تعبت من طول الحلم الذى يعيدنى إلى أوله وإلى آخري، دون أن نلتقي فى أى صباح. سأصنع أحلامى من كفاف يومى لأتجنب الخيبة
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