141 Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish

We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.

Dort immer noch Abstand wahren zu wollen, wo es nicht mehr nötig wäre, gehört zu den Folgeerscheinungen von Sehnsucht. وللحنين اعراض جانبيه من بينها...الحرج من رفع الكلفه مع الممكن

Don’t tell the beloved, you are Iand I am you, saythe opposite of that: we are two guestsof an excess, fugitive cloud.

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.

In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss.And the poem is one of its consolation prizes.One of the qualities of the winds, north or south

I learnt all the words worthy of the court of bloodSo that I could break the ruleI learnt all the words and broke them upTo make a single word:Homeland..

In Damascus:the traveler sings to himself:I return from Syrianeither alivenor deadbut as cloudsthat ease the butterfly’s burdenfrom my fugitive soul

Who am I to say to you what I’m saying?

Everything around me looks like me and I look like nothing here