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And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late. — Mahmoud Darwish

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third. — Mahmoud Darwish

I know who opens the door to the jasmine tree
as it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests. — Mahmoud Darwish

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance, — Mahmoud Darwish

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language. — Mahmoud Darwish

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

I wish I were a candle in the darkness. — Mahmoud Darwish

The only paradise we know through our senses and intuition is that of the beloved, and the only hell, disappointment in love. — Mahmoud Darwish

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating. — Mahmoud Darwish

So let there be prose.
There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph — Mahmoud Darwish

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold — Mahmoud Darwish

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. — Mahmoud Darwish

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. — Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian people are in love with life. — Mahmoud Darwish

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be. — Mahmoud Darwish

And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal.
Enter into the happiness, and burst. — Mahmoud Darwish

No night is long enough for us to dream twice. — Mahmoud Darwish

In Damascus:
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ... — Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. — Mahmoud Darwish

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. — Mahmoud Darwish

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. — Mahmoud Darwish

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism. — Mahmoud Darwish

I see poetry as spiritual medicine. — Mahmoud Darwish

This peace will leave us as a cluster of dust ... — Mahmoud Darwish

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. — Mahmoud Darwish

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. — Mahmoud Darwish

Words are a homeland. — Mahmoud Darwish

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions. — Mahmoud Darwish

My love, I fear the silence of your hands. — Mahmoud Darwish

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

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

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions. — Mahmoud Darwish

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

The image of love reveals itself there; in a profoundly present absence. — Mahmoud Darwish

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

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. — Mahmoud Darwish

Without hope we are lost. — Mahmoud Darwish

Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far. — Mahmoud Darwish

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

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. — Mahmoud Darwish

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness. — Mahmoud Darwish

If you live, live free
or die like the trees, standing up. — Mahmoud Darwish

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless. — Mahmoud Darwish

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

The long road has drained me of all feelings and expectations. I don't feel a thing or expect anything now. — Mahmoud Darwish

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

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope. — Mahmoud Darwish

And you became like the coffee,
In the deliciousness,
and the bitterness
and the addiction. — Mahmoud Darwish

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a
single word: Home. — Mahmoud Darwish

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. — Mahmoud Darwish

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

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands. — Mahmoud Darwish

I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility. — Mahmoud Darwish

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews. — Mahmoud Darwish

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

we Do as the ascendants to GOD ; the prisoners and the unemployeds Do , we Forget the Pain & Raise Hope ~ — Mahmoud Darwish

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller — Mahmoud Darwish

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. — Mahmoud Darwish

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life. — Mahmoud Darwish

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. — Mahmoud Darwish

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives. — Mahmoud Darwish

She drew away
from her shadow,so lightening would pass between the two
like a stranger passes through his poem — Mahmoud Darwish

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us! — Mahmoud Darwish

For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs. — Mahmoud Darwish

Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice. — Mahmoud Darwish

I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander — Mahmoud Darwish

On this earth there is that which deserves life. — Mahmoud Darwish

Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body? — Mahmoud Darwish

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. — Mahmoud Darwish