Best Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
- I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. Anything Except
- I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility. Afraid
- I see poetry as spiritual medicine. Inspirational
- Palestinian people are in love with life. Inspirational
- The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. Finally
- The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. Metaphor
- To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. Good
- When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. Bad
- Without hope we are lost. Hope
- Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march… Armies
- Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a… Feel
- The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow… Ahead
- Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. Ease
- Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. Always Making
- A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland… Born
- Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. Concept
- ... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs. Essential
- If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. Hands
- 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. Find
- My love, I fear the silence of your hands. Fear
- Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless. Aimless
- The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives. Days
- I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part,… Dream
- Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third. Chosen
- 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… Bees