Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

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The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast
it can illuminate the nights.
With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light
and with a gardenia's breath it can revive a homeland!

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

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
I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind this dispossessed place... I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work and their hurry to return to their folk... and their need to say: Good Morning...

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

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

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

Mahmoud Darwish
We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

Mahmoud Darwish