141 Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish

I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms – all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

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

I testify that I am free and alive when I am forgotten.

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

My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.

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

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

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.