Poetry Quote by Mahmoud Darwish — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.”

“I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind this dispossessed place...”

“Don’t say that poetry, my friend, is beautiful”

“Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said.”

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

“I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a”

“I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.”

“A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.”

“It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.”

“Since the majority of me”

“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,”

“Ξέρω: κηρύγματα καὶ ρητορεῖες πάλι, θὰ πεῖς.”