Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“I used to love winter, and I would listen to it, drop by drop. Rain, rain like an appeal to a lover,… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again,… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“I leave the other side of my life where it wants to stay, and follow the remainder of my life in search… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
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 Image
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
