Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish

… For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

Essentials

Poet

Song

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 transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

May

Nightmare

Occupation

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 by.

Army

Attachment

Wall

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

Darkness

Moon

And what I don’t understand I grasp it only when it’s too late.

Late

Too Late

Understanding

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

Addiction

Bitterness

Coffee

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

Beautiful

Resistance

Very Beautiful

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

Exile

House

Rooms

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

Dream

Night

Wind

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

Identity

Israel

Tension

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Addiction

Age

Aggressors

Army

Attachment

Beautiful

Believe

Bitterness

Blood

Body

Book

Break

Broke

Broken

Candle

Captives

Children

Chosen

Coffee

Collective Memory

Darkness

Deceiving

Defined

Deserve

Desire

Doe

Dream

Earth

Emotion

Ends

Essentials

Eternal

Exile

Eye

Firsts

Girl

Giving

Goal

Hands

Hate

Heaven

Here I Am

Home

Homeland

Horse

House

Hurt

I Have Learned

Identity

Illusion

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Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish

… For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

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 transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

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 by.

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

And what I don’t understand I grasp it only when it’s too late.

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

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