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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 treeas 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
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 spirita 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 theremainder 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 asingle 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
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 awayfrom 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
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
