“When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.”
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Famous Mahmoud Darwish Quotes
“I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.”
Source: Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems
“And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.”
“We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”
Source: Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems
“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”
Source: Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems
“Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.”
“And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.”
“I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.”
“For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.”
“I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.”
“I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.”
“I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.”
“The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.”
“The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.”
“To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.”