The War Will End, And Leaders Will Shake Hands, And The Old Lady Will Still Wait For Her Martyred Son,

The war will end, and leaders will shake hands, and the old lady will still wait for her martyred son, and that woman will wait for her beloved husband, and those children will wait for their heroic father. I don't know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the price.

Mahmoud Darwish

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A poet is at liberty to lie, but he only lies in love because the heart’s provinces are open to alluring.

Mahmoud Darwish - In the presence of absence

“Whoever recites Ayat al-Kursi after every obligatory Salah, the only barrier between him and Paradise is death.”

— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

And on a starry night I wish to show you the pole star.

...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