Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
Top 69 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I know who opens the door to the jasmine tree
as it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests.
as it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests.
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.
The only paradise we know through our senses and intuition is that of the beloved, and the only hell, disappointment in love.
And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal.
Enter into the happiness, and burst.
Enter into the happiness, and burst.
In Damascus:
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ...
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ...
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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.
a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.
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.
Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us.
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.
remainder of my life in search of the other side of it.
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.
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.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.
We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.
The long road has drained me of all feelings and expectations. I don't feel a thing or expect anything now.
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.
They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth.
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.
a high moon made in Baghdad, neither Arab, nor Persian,
nor claimed by the goddesses all around us.
because you are die surface of my sky.
My body is the land,
the place for you...
the pigeons fly
the pigeons come down...
My body is the land,
the place for you...
the pigeons fly
the pigeons come down...
we Do as the ascendants to GOD ; the prisoners and the unemployeds Do , we Forget the Pain & Raise Hope ~
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.