Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

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.

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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
  • Growing
  • Poetry
  • Wall