Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) [ID'd]
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When is it my turn? When will someone be MY coffin, that I may be YOURS???
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- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)
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q!slime on grieving and raging and grieving:
"It wasn’t even on purpose. I know that… I know it was an accident but… that doesn’t make it better. It doesn’t make me forgive it."
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What's the matter?
"I can't get back to myself."
– Mahmoud Darwish from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)
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- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)
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Mahmoud Darwish, (1987), Memory for Forgetfulness. August, Beirut, 1982, [ ذاكرة للنسيان Dhakirah li-al-nisyan], Translated from the Arabic, with an Introduction by Ibrahim Muhawi, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1995
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"Alone, like a verse from a lyric with no beginning and no end. Alone, like the cry of a heart in the wilderness."
—Mahmoud Darwish, from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)
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Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) // John Keats, "Ode on Indolence" // Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart // Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk // Misun Holdorf // Dear Icarus—Anna Miriam Brown // Louise Erdrich // Frank Bidart, "Guilty of Dust" // Mary Oliver, "Honey Locust" // Kahlil Gibran, "Defeat" // Mary Oliver, That Sweet Fruit John Clare // Brian Jekel // Katherine Mansfield, The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield // see 6 // Mary Oliver, Thirst // Yves Olade, Bloodsport // Marina Tsvetaeva, Poems for Akhmatova (trans. Michael R. Burch) // Galileo Chini, Icarus // Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything
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Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi)
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Do you have any weapons on you?
—I have a longing that's killing me.
—Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
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“…We can see ourselves turning into memories. We are these memories. As of this moment, we’ll remember each other as we’ll remember a distant world disappearing into a blueness more blue than it used to be. We’ll part in the pitch of longing.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
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