We’ve heard the Trojan victim speak through the mouth of the Greek Euripides.
As for me, I’m looking for the poet of Troy, because Troy didn’t tell its story.
And I wonder, does a land that has great poets
has the right to control a people that has no poets?
And is the lack of poetry amongst a people enough to justify its defeat…

Mahmoud Darwish in Notre Musique, Jean-Luc Godard (2004)