remanence-of-love:

gnossienne:

Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief (يـومـيـات الـحـزن الـعـادي), 1973

muhtesemz:

ستنتهي الحرب، ويتصافح القادة، وتبقى تلك العجوز تنتظر ولدها الشهيد، وتلك الفتاة تنتظر زوجها الحبيب، وأولئك الأطفال ينتظرون والدهم البطل. لا أعلم من باع الوطن ولكنني رأيت من دفع الثمن.

The war will end, and leaders will shake hands, and the old lady will still wait for her martyred son, and that woman will wait for her beloved husband, and those children will wait for their heroic father. I don’t know who sold our homeland, but I have seen who paid the price.

- Mahmoud Darwish

irsasblog:

You are killing me, and you are keeping me from dying.

That is love.

- Mahmoud Darwish.

letters-toyourheart:

How many times did I die without noticing?

- Mahmoud Darwish, In The Presence of Absence