History Quote by Mahmoud Darwish

“Certainly the Andalusians were very ignorant. Few if any of them could read, and they seemed not even to know the one thing that…

— George Orwell

“We arrived and the miracle happened. It was the sea and the wind in the bells. We came from far, from years Thirsty as…

— José Manuel Cardona

“If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there.”

— Michael Langley

“Look up, Granada. Look to your people. We as beautiful and as plentiful as them stars knitted together in heaven. We just forgot. Somebody’s…

— Jonathan Odell

“That was the end of my adventure in Central America. By the lakeshore in Granada, Nicaragua, I decided to turn for home. I wondered…

— Patrick Marnham

“The sun set beyond thesea, so says the poet - and when a poet mentions a sea, we have to accept it; no harm…

— Anonymous

“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they had lived.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“You leave behind your fine poems. You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into…

— Aliette de Bodard

“Spain, for so long a mere geographical expression, was somehow transformed into an historical fact.”

— J. H. Elliott

“The world was a glorious place this morning. The birds were particularly noisy in their greeting to the day. The sky was a cloudless…

— Karen Ranney

“Las regiones apacibles y vagas en que me movía eran patrimonio de los poetas, no el terreno del crimen”

— Vladimir Nabokov

A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet…

— Ilona Andrews