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

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

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

“I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that has no end and no beginning, no purpose and no goal. I do not speak to you, and you do not speak to me; we listen only to the music of silence. Silence is the friend's trust of friend, imagination's self-confidence between rain and rainbow.”

“The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.”

“I prepare my portrait for my woman to hang on a wall when I die.”

“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...”

“Love what is simple and beautiful.”

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,”

“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?”

“An oak tree and a rosebush grew,”

“One impulse from a vernal wood”

“Over the solitary hills he fared,”