“She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. from “She Does… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“the poem is a dice throw on a patch of darkness that may or may not glow” — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph” — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs. — 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
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the… — 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
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my… — 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.… — 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
“In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“A poem exists only in the relation between poet and reader. And I'm in need of my readers, except that they never… — 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… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Sonnet V I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place patiently the river asks for its… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Later, we'll look up what was recorded in our history about yours in faraway lands. Then we'll ask ourselves, "Was Andalusia here… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“I prepare my portrait for my woman to hang on a wall when I die. she says: Is there a wall to… — 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
