Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

In Damascus:poems become diaphanousThey’re neither sensualnor intellectualthey are what echo saysto echo . . .

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them asingle word: Home.

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