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In the Presence of Absence

by Mahmoud Darwish

"Darwish is to be read with urgency, in the night, when nothing else moves but his lines." —The Village VoiceBy one of the most transcendent poets of this generation, a remarkable collection of prose poems that explores themes of lov

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“Why did we rush so much when the end is obvious and the beginning is obscure?”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: That Space Between Birth and Death, Being Born & Dying

“Give birth to me from a grain of wheat, not from a wound. Give birth to me and take me back to a world before meaning, so I can embrace you on the grass. Do you hear me?”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Follow Me Into A New World

“How can letters take on so many words? How can words have enough space to embrace the world?”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Words, The Power of Language, Within An Alphabet (So Much), 26 Letters

“Letters lie before you, so release them from their neutrality and play with them like a conqueror in a delirious universe.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, Creative Expression, Making The World With Words, Language, Delirium

“The sun fills your heart with the light of oranges.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Light, Sun, Good Morning, Sun Renewal

“Pain does not see and cannot be seen: it is the nothing growing full.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Nothingness

“I do not know who is dead and who is alive inside you.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Different Levels of Death & Life Inside of Us, Parts of Us Age At Different Speeds

“Love is neither happiness nor misery, but rather the senses finding the harmony and discord of resemblance through ever-renewing desire.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Definitions of Love, Love, The Real Meaning of Love

“As if writing were, like love, the offspring of a cloud. When you touch it, it melts.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing & Expression, Truth, Truth as Movement, Liquid Prose

“From afar, the poems come.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Transcendental, Poetical Circuits, Where The Words Come From

“Time is a smooth river for the one who does not notice it, and fierce and brutal for the one who gazes at it and is snatched by the abyss.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Time

“Remember yourself before all turns to dust.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Dust, Memory, Time Vanishes

“You are almost you.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Identity & Self, Never Ending Story, Always Still More To Learn

“Longing is the absent chatting with the absent.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Missing You, Absent, Alone

“Dreams will find their dreamers and all a dreamer has to do is remember.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, How To Escape Into A Dream, Ideals

“Grasp your own reality and grasp your name and learn how to write your own proof.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com

Tagged: Own Your Identity, Be Your Own Truth, Inner Truth, Write Your Own Story, What Others Think Does Not Matter