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Mahmoud Darwish quotes: And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late. And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third. Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I know who opens the door to the jasmine treeas it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests. I know who opens the door to the jasmine tree
as it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance, Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language. I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest. A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I wish I were a candle in the darkness. I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: The only paradise we know through our senses and intuition is that of the beloved, and the only hell, disappointment in love. The only paradise we know through our senses and intuition is that of the beloved, and the only hell, disappointment in love.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating. Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph So let there be prose.
There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Palestinian people are in love with life. Palestinian people are in love with life.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be. Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal.Enter into the happiness, and burst. And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal.
Enter into the happiness, and burst.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: No night is long enough for us to dream twice. No night is long enough for us to dream twice.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: In Damascus:poems become diaphanousThey're neither sensualnor intellectualthey are what echo saysto echo ... In Damascus:
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ...
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism. Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I see poetry as spiritual medicine. I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust ... This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust ...
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Words are a homeland. Words are a homeland.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions. When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: My love, I fear the silence of your hands. My love, I fear the silence of your hands.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirita language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets. I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit
a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun.Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us. We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun.
Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions. One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I leave the other side of my life where it wants to stay, and follow theremainder of my life in search of the other side of it. I leave the other side of my life where it wants to stay, and follow the
remainder of my life in search of the other side of it.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: The image of love reveals itself there; in a profoundly present absence. The image of love reveals itself there; in a profoundly present absence.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Without hope we are lost. Without hope we are lost.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far. Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be. Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness. And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up. If you live, live free
or die like the trees, standing up.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless. Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing. We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: The long road has drained me of all feelings and expectations. I don't feel a thing or expect anything now. The long road has drained me of all feelings and expectations. I don't feel a thing or expect anything now.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.They taught me I had a language in heavenand another language on earth. The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.
They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope. We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: And you became like the coffee, In the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction. And you became like the coffee,
In the deliciousness,
and the bitterness
and the addiction.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them asingle word: Home. I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a
single word: Home.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: If there must be a moon, let it be high,a high moon made in Baghdad, neither Arab, nor Persian,nor claimed by the goddesses all around us. If there must be a moon, let it be high,
a high moon made in Baghdad, neither Arab, nor Persian,
nor claimed by the goddesses all around us.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands. The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility. I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews. I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: because you are die surface of my sky. My body is the land, the place for you... the pigeons fly the pigeons come down... because you are die surface of my sky.
My body is the land,
the place for you...
the pigeons fly
the pigeons come down...
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: we Do as the ascendants to GOD ; the prisoners and the unemployeds Do , we Forget the Pain & Raise Hope ~ we Do as the ascendants to GOD ; the prisoners and the unemployeds Do , we Forget the Pain & Raise Hope ~
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life. Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives. The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: She drew awayfrom her shadow,so lightening would pass between the twolike a stranger passes through his poem She drew away
from her shadow,so lightening would pass between the two
like a stranger passes through his poem
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: May poetry and God's name have mercy on us! May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs. For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice. Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: On this earth there is that which deserves life. On this earth there is that which deserves life.
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body? Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
Mahmoud Darwish quotes: If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

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