Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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Here was a type of the true elder race,And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?
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Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.
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If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
