I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language. Mahmoud Darwish More Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish More Quotes From Mahmoud Darwish Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless. Mahmoud Darwish dreamwindnight She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. Mahmoud Darwish thrilldoelove-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-lifebeautifulpeople My love, I fear the silence of your hands. Mahmoud Darwish silencehands Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life. Mahmoud Darwish definedopposites Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. Mahmoud Darwish wallbreakbeautiful Palestinian people are in love with life. Mahmoud Darwish love-lifepalestinianpeople Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third. Mahmoud Darwish thirdschosentwo History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. Mahmoud Darwish aggressorsvictimlaughing 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 tomorrowtodayworld Without hope we are lost. Mahmoud Darwish without-hopelost One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions. Mahmoud Darwish visionone-daywater 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 illusionuseworld Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body? Mahmoud Darwish homelandbody I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. Mahmoud Darwish lightgivingbelieve I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold Mahmoud Darwish horseendsdesire To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. Mahmoud Darwish siegeoccupationinspiration 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 wallarmyattachment The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. Mahmoud Darwish importancepoetpoetry-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 tasksstarsheaven
