How often have I held back my complaint: Why should the Lebanese homeland be incompatible with Palestine? Why should the Egyptian loaf be incompatible with Palestine? Why should the Syrian roof be incompatible with Palestine? Why should Palestine be incompatible with Palestine?

— Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?

— Mahmoud Darwish

On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Out of my ignorance, I called you a homeland and I forgot homelands are taken away.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change.

— Mahmoud Darwish

After you nothing goes and nothing returns.

— Mahmoud Darwish

May life suddenly open on the wing of a butterfly fluttering over a rhyme for those who do not care about meaning.

— Mahmoud Darwish

They asked ‘do you love her to death?’ I said ’speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Get rid of my tomorrow. Return my yesterday and leave us alone together. After you nothing leaves and nothing returns.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Thus, lethargic letters, which carry no value when separate, build a house when they come together.

— Mahmoud Darwish

The wars will end and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and the children will wait for their heroic father, I do not know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the price.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Silence has gossiping walls, emptiness slandering emptiness.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Yet you love sleep and salute Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, and forget that he is death’s brother.

— Mahmoud Darwish

From afar, the poems come. I resemble you, yet I do not become you. I become you, yet I do not resemble you.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Letters are restless, hungry for an image, and the image is thirsty for a meaning.

— Mahmoud Darwish

I have passed by many eyes but only got lost in yours.

— Mahmoud Darwish

All roads lead to you, even those I took to forget you.

— Mahmoud Darwish

I love talking to you, even if I have nothing to say.

— Mahmoud Darwish

If you asked me how many times you came in my mind, I would say once. Because you came, and never left.

— Mahmoud Darwish

You won’t find the same person twice, not even in the same person.

— Mahmoud Darwish

A University degree, four books, and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me ‘good morning’ and I read it as ‘I love you’.

— Mahmoud Darwish
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