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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.
Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
Born: Mar 13, 1941
Died: Aug 9, 2008

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Grass, Blade, Only, Poetry, Attachment, Like, Armies, Wall, Human, Confirming, While, Against, Growing, March, Resist, Fragility

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