I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“It would be the simplest thing to say, my homeland is where I was born. But when you returned, you found nothing.… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that has no end… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share
“I'll search in mythology and archeology and in every -ology to my old name. one of the goddesses of Canaan will side with me,… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share
I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share
I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share
“Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last poem to my wife's heart. They laughed,… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share
... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share
