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By Mary Rizzo • May 21st, 2008 at 8:00 • Category: Falastin, Quotes

I hope I could have more time to write love poems only, because I feel it, and I want it, and I need it. But you can’t be concentrated in love poems when your life is threatened. You have, first of all, to defend your life, your existence.
Samih Al-Qasim, Palestinian poet

Tagged as: Palestine, Poetry, Samih Al-Qasim

Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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