115 result(s) for Mahmoud Darwish Quotes.
"I am from there. I am from here. I am not there. 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."
"I come from there and I have memories. I live now here and I still have memories."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"We have a country of words."
"On this land, there is what makes life worth living."
"The poems of Darwish are a bridge we must cross alone, the first bridge holding together impossibilities."
"Under what shell is the seed of the sea in the other sea?"
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"Their silence is a shout louder than death."
"I see two clouds leaving me behind and I close my eyes."
"We have sat on the fence long enough and it has changed nothing. We no longer want to be half free."
"Standing here, staying here, permanent here, here forever."
"Ah, the salt of the earth! Oh, my country the salt of the earth!"
"For a long time I have wanted to become the tears of the sun."
"Resting on an invisible balance, holding the tranquility of birds and the disastrous earth."
"I am afraid to live in this country where every sound is a lie."
"Let’s leave words of fire for our lovers and spears for our enemies."
"It’s hard for men who play with butterflies to come to power."
"They received me and said: To be born in the country that you love, to bear grief, never to leave the country where you were born."
"On this earth we are nourished, and for its sake we hunger."
"If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them, their oil would become tears."
"I come from there and I have memories."
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"I am enamored of the light of your eyelashes, my dear."
"Do not blame us, we are not the living, we are the dead."
"I will tell you what I will never tell anyone else."
"Let us admit: we do not have the lyrics of the one who writes thunder."
"We have a land and a window to the sea."
"I will never forget you, nor your hands, as long as I live."
"We are captives, even though our homes are run on the wind."
"I want to go on being, so my exultation may call from beyond the rooftops."
"What should I do, to make you feel safe? A ladder was stolen from my dream."
"In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls, I walk from one epoch to another without a memory to guide me."
"We are the half-destroyed instruments that once held to a course."
"Why do you stand still at my door, my long-buried love? Is it my turn to seek you in heaven?"
"Give me an identity to know myself by. I must have an explanation about myself."
"And there are still those who cannot answer my question: Shall I live or die?"
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"What directly affects me can only assume a cultural dimension that excavates ancient memories."
"I am the one who deserves to be an explanation for his forgetfulness."
"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."
"We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April's hesitations, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman's point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute's sigh and the invaders' fear of memories."
"My homeland is a suitcase. Two suitcases, not one."
"And our wounds will blossom."
"I don't hate people. I try, I long, run after them, and die to love and peace."
"I shan't water the flowers of the south, so the grains of my people bloom. Even if the victory tree doesn't bloom, I will walk with it."
"We have not shaken hands for one hundred years. Will we not make merry this year?"
"O sons of those who were taken as captives, you are free now. You captured the sea and left me disoriented in the midst of a plunder"
"Will you be my last country or the first among all the countries? How far are you from me?"
"Don't worry, if you don't have an ash, every wound will heal."
"Treat and heal, treat and heal; there's a wound in a wound, a rose under every card, and a prisoner in every mirror."
"And one must never shut one's eyes. When I shut my eyes, I miss dreaming."
"I am Nahil. My soul is strange, and I owe everything to an antiquated moon."
"I wish I could transport the sadness in my heart to where the clouds of long winters pass."
"O evening of the night of death, I would blossom if I could live. My time is short"
"The ones who listen to definitions dream they are humane, and solitarily erase a massacre."
"Do you remember, my love, the brutal night horses' hooves were freed at the margins of my soul?"
"Nostalgia is a disease. It can lead one to death, and I wish from the bottom of my heart to be free of its fire, its flood, and its blood."
"In the cry of silence, I say I am"
"We have a country as a homeland and we have another country, which is the dream."
"On this land, there is what justifies our insistence on remaining here."
"Our homeland is like the speech of the clouds."
"We wandered through the silence of stones and songs."
"We have on this earth what makes life worth living."
"All people are entrusted with the truth, the way birds are entrusted with the sky."
"We have to make the status of the Palestinian, wherever he is, as if he is in Palestine."
"We love life if we find a way to it."
"Let's sit together on this land to drink to our love."
"Exile is more than a geographical concept."
"For years our hands interlocked, then we unlinked them. We departed. That was our friendship."
"My homeland is a suitcase."
"Every person, every thing, was a cause; every cause had an effect."
"The land is not a mere a geographical area to belong to, like a space."
"If you don't revolt, you will drown in your reality."
"Had I not discovered that every love inevitably reaches the end of every journey, I would never have left my country."
"We are responsible for the dreams of our generation."
"I am an obsessed maniac about cleanliness, which explains why I write only about limestone."
"This is our homeland, and the land of our children and ancestors."
"I come from there and I have memories / Born as mortals are, I have a mother / And a house with many windows, / I have brothers, friends, / And a prison cell with a cold window."
"We are captives, even when we see the open doors."
"On this earth what makes life worth living / Is worth dying for."
"Every paradise disturbed needs a woman."
"Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room."
"Life is more generous than death. We should not take any of this for granted."
"On this land what makes life worth living / Is worth dying for."
"Sadness was the enemy itself."
"I regret, and I do not regret."
"Rise so high, in the end no one can hurt you except yourself."
"We have on this earth what makes life worth living: hearts for love, bodies for pleasure, and blood for life."
"Write it! And know that resurrecting words / is more than any dream."
"We were born where we were born. It was the foundation of our state."
"When the sandcastle becomes a vision, / Interpret it for us, O dancer!"
"We have on this earth what makes life worth living: earth, and the sky, and love under the sky."
"I've known Palestine / when it was a mountain among mountains and my song was new."
"Soldier, we love you. / The night is our mother."
"Let us come from everywhere to place flowers / on the graves of flowers."
"Love is an ancient echo in the eternal mountains / so reach beyond yourself."
"We travel like other people, but we return to nowhere. / We have a country of words."
"We are captives to images, with no way out."
"The moment of departure is the moment of ecstasy."
"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave."
"Peace is possible. Don't lose hope."
"Every person weeps in their own language."
"On this Earth there is something worth living for."
"And you, what do you look for in us?"
"Beauty happens even in the ruins."
"There are no borders for the heart's journey."
"I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here."
"Love your love and hate your hate."
"I don't know war. I don't know politics. I know the smell of the earth."
"Death is no more than a swap of clothes."
"I aspire to a peace that is not divided."
"Stay away from the words. Stay away from the pain."
"To have what you have is to have what you love."
"Take care of the meaning. All else will come later."
"I don't sing in order to free people. I sing because I am free."
"My sorrow? You are the owner of it, not me."
"When everything is lost, there is nothing left except what is found within."
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