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. Mahmoud Darwish More Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish More Quotes From Mahmoud Darwish She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. Mahmoud Darwish thrill doe love-you We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves. Mahmoud Darwish love-life beautiful people My love, I fear the silence of your hands. Mahmoud Darwish silence hands Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life. Mahmoud Darwish defined opposites Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. Mahmoud Darwish wall break beautiful Palestinian people are in love with life. Mahmoud Darwish love-life palestinian people Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third. Mahmoud Darwish thirds chosen two History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. Mahmoud Darwish aggressors victim laughing 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 always heralds a worse situation. Mahmoud Darwish tomorrow today world Without hope we are lost. Mahmoud Darwish without-hope lost One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions. Mahmoud Darwish vision one-day water Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life. Mahmoud Darwish illusion use world Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body? Mahmoud Darwish homeland body I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. Mahmoud Darwish light giving believe I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold Mahmoud Darwish horse ends desire To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. Mahmoud Darwish siege occupation inspiration 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. Mahmoud Darwish wall army attachment The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. Mahmoud Darwish importance poet poetry-is The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth. Mahmoud Darwish tasks stars heaven When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions. Mahmoud Darwish emotion age
