Quotes by : Mahmoud Darwish

The mercy bulletI envy horses: if they break a leg and feel humiliated because they can no longer charge....

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

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

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.....

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence it....

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that....

In Damascus:poems become diaphanousThey’re neither sensualnor intellectualthey are what echo saysto....

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade....