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"Take the poem from me. I can't bear, now, the betrayal of beauty. I can't bear the force of language which crams us into a passageway, and opens for it, not for us, the heroism of the horizon"

(Carta de Mahmud Darwish a Samih al-Qasim. Traducción al inglés de Jeffrey Sacks).