"The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands."

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Mahmoud Darwish

#Running Quotes #Hands Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.”
“One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.”
“I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here, against his body, was the only place in which I belonged. The only place I had ever wanted to be. We lay in silence for a while, holding each other, our skin merging, our breathing synchronized. I felt as if silence might allow the moment to last for ever, which would still not be enough.”
“One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn't fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, Someday I'm going to be a photographer! It was as big an epiphany as any man ever had.”
“The three salient features of love are: Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is love, there is no pain. Where there is love, there is nothing impossible.”
“The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.”
“I didn't have a record player.”
“When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.”

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