Mahmoud Darwish Quotes - Page 2

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• And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Understanding, Too Late, Late

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• 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.

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  Morning, Horse, Eye

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• Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

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  Two, Chosen, Thirds

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

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  Home, Order, I Have Learned

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

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

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  Beautiful, Wall, Break

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

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• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

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  Laughing, Victim, Aggressors

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• One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

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  Water, Vision, One Day

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.120, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

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  Stars, Heaven, Tasks

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

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• 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.

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  Broken, Desire, Wheat

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

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• Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

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  Sarcastic, Pain, Sarcasm

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• The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

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  Reality, Stronger, Metaphor

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• 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.

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  Wall, Army, Attachment

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Love Life, People

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

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

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  Horse, Desire, Ends

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

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• Palestinian people are in love with life.

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  Love Life, People, Palestinian

  "Why You Should Read Mahmoud Darwish" by John Lundberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2008.

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• I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

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  Believe, Light, Giving

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• I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

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  Spiritual, Medicine

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• 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.

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  World, Use, Illusion

  "Mahmoud Darwish" by Peter Clark, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2008.

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• The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

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  Running, Hands, Stories

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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

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  Language, States, Homeland

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• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

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  Inspiration, Occupation, Siege

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• Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Terrorism, Justify

  "The poetry of loss" by Richard Silverstein, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2008.

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• The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

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  Poet, Importance, Poetry Is

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• I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.

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  Blood, Broke, Break

  Mahmoud Darwish, “I Come From There”

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• 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.

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  Steel, Use, Want

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

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