The sea is the obsession of the poet, because the first poetic rhythm, or the first sense of poetic rhythm, was born of the motion of the waves.

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In this quotation Darwish "reveals that he learned to write by imitating the rhythm of the sea’s waves." -Mahmoud Darwish: Writing as an Artistic Sanctuary, Sazzad, R. (2015), Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 17(1), 1-18. muse.jhu.edu.

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The sea is the obsession of the poet, because the first poetic rhythm, or the first sense of poetic rhythm, was born of the motion of the waves.

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