Top 25 Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

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.

Palestinian people are in love with life.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

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

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

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

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.