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

“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.”

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

“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...”

“I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold”

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

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

“This world”

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”

“Love Sorrow”

“Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)”

“It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.”

“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.”