16 Mahmoud Darwish Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian Poet

Born: Mar 13, 1941

Died: Aug 9, 2008

Me People Poet Poetry Reality You

Related authors: Emily Dickinson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Khalil Gibran Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Sophocles Walt Whitman

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. Mahmoud Darwish

Grass Blade Only Poetry Attachment Like Armies Wall Human Confirming While Against Growing March Resist Fragility

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Mahmoud Darwish

Oppression Elsewhere Several Born Only He Occupation Prisons However Times Person Die May Place Transformed Homeland Nightmare

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. Mahmoud Darwish

History Victim Laughs Both Aggressor

Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.' Mahmoud Darwish

Me You Change Trust People Complicated Some People Young Say Some Poetry Attract Readers Accept How Accomplishment Trust Me Different Ask Different People Your Many Suggestions

The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation. Mahmoud Darwish

Today World Better Tomorrow Will Nation Situation Worse Only Feels Days Always Than Hold Certainty Palestinians

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. Mahmoud Darwish

Reality Stronger Metaphor Than Palestine

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. Mahmoud Darwish

Arabs Tension Between Identity Always Israel Nationality

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions. Mahmoud Darwish

Age Emotions Control Learned How Passed

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

Poet Finally Says Poetry He Importance How Measured

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. Mahmoud Darwish

Best Book Progress First Bad Writer His

Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol. Mahmoud Darwish

Sometimes Mother Poet Before Think About Poem Write Feel She Read Am Palestine Palestinians Symbol

Palestinian people are in love with life. Mahmoud Darwish

Life Love People Palestinian Palestinian People

I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility. Mahmoud Darwish

Responsibility Never Maybe Afraid Children Wanted

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

Good Siege Poetry Inspiration Occupation

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