Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

• Y te volviste como el café,
  en lo delicioso,
  y la amargura,
  y la adicción.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Coffee, Addiction, Bitterness

  334 Copiar cita

• We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Suffering, Malady

  234 Copiar cita

• And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Moon, Darkness

  287 Copiar cita

• Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Dream, Smell, Soul

  284 Copiar cita

• If you live, live free
  or die like the trees, standing up.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Tree, Live Free, Standing

  230 Copiar cita

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

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Desire, Captives

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.31, Univ of California Press

  235 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Dream, Here I Am, Names

  244 Copiar cita

• The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Hurt, Taught, Deceiving

  Mahmoud Darwish (2012). “Journal of an Ordinary Grief”, p.82, Archipelago

  203 Copiar cita

• If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Hands, Oil, Tree

  "Olives, a Violent Romance That Resonates in the Arab World" by Magda Abu-Fadil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

  254 Copiar cita

• 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

  Occupation, May, Nightmare

  "The Palestinian poet who inspired JK Rowling's stance on Israel" by Claire Armitstead, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2015.

  234 Copiar cita

• Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Beautiful, Resistance, Very Beautiful

  197 Copiar cita

• I wish I were a candle in the darkness.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Darkness, Wish, Candle

  39 Copiar cita

• 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

  World, Today, Tomorrow

  56 Copiar cita

• She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Love You, Doe, Thrill

  127 Copiar cita

• On this earth there is that which deserves life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Earth, Deserve

  181 Copiar cita

• Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  House, Rooms, Exile

  162 Copiar cita

• Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Opposites, Defined

  103 Copiar cita

• Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Goal, Standing, Eternal

  178 Copiar cita

• My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Hands, Silence

  Mahmoud Darwish, “The Pigeons Fly”

  71 Copiar cita

• Without hope we are lost.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Lost, Without Hope

  102 Copiar cita

• Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Body, Homeland

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.15, Univ of California Press

  24 Copiar cita

• Mi patria no es una maleta, y no soy un viajero

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Suitcases, Homeland, Traveller

  139 Copiar cita

• I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Believe, Thinking, Illusion

  196 Copiar cita

• No decido representar nada excepto a mí mismo. Pero ese yo está lleno de memoria colectiva.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Memories, Self, Collective Memory

  "Poet of the Arab world" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002.

  72 Copiar cita

• Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Dream, Night, Wind

  66 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Nizar Qabbani

Fady Joudah

Al-Mutanabbi

Edward Said

Khalil Gibran

Ghassan Kanafani

Ghada al-Samman

Ahlam Mosteghanemi