Mahmoud Darwish Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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

• We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Broken, Desire, Wheat

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

• I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind this dispossessed place... I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work and their hurry to return to their folk... and their need to say: Good Morning.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Morning, Horse, Eye

• I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Horse, Desire, Ends

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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