Mahmoud Darwish - Unfortunately, It Was Paradise (2003)

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The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

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I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

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The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

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The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast
it can illuminate the nights.
With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light
and with a gardenia's breath it can revive a homeland!

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We 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.

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I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

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