Mahmoud Darwish quotes

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

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

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

Without hope we are lost.

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

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

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

Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

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

The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

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