Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

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• We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Suffering, Malady

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

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Coffee, Addiction, Bitterness

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• Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Dream, Smell, Soul

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

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Moon, Darkness

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• We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Desire, Captives

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.31, Univ of California Press

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• If you live, live free
  or die like the trees, standing up.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Tree, Live Free, Standing

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• The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Hurt, Taught, Deceiving

  Mahmoud Darwish (2012). “Journal of an Ordinary Grief”, p.82, Archipelago

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• 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

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• If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Hands, Oil, Tree

  "Olives, a Violent Romance That Resonates in the Arab World" by Magda Abu-Fadil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• 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

  Occupation, May, Nightmare

  "The Palestinian poet who inspired JK Rowling's stance on Israel" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Beautiful, Resistance, Very Beautiful

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• 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

  World, Today, Tomorrow

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• She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Love You, Doe, Thrill

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• I wish I were a candle in the darkness.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Darkness, Wish, Candle

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• On this earth there is that which deserves life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Earth, Deserve

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

  Mahmoud Darwish

  House, Rooms, Exile

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• Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Goal, Standing, Eternal

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• My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Hands, Silence

  Mahmoud Darwish, “The Pigeons Fly”

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• Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Opposites, Defined

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• Without hope we are lost.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Lost, Without Hope

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• I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Believe, Thinking, Illusion

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• My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Suitcases, Homeland, Traveller

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• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Beautiful, Wall, Break

  "Poet of the Arab world" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002.

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• I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Memories, Self, Collective Memory

  "Poet of the Arab world" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002.

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• I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Home, Order, I Have Learned

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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