Mahmoud Darwish Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Dream, Here I Am, Names

• 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

  Stars, Heaven, Tasks

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.85, Univ of California Press

• 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.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Steel, Use, Want

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982”, p.33, Univ of California Press

• I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Language, States, Homeland

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