Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

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

Mahmoud Darwish

Without hope we are lost.

Mahmoud Darwish

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

Mahmoud Darwish

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

Mahmoud Darwish

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

Mahmoud Darwish

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.

Mahmoud Darwish

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

Mahmoud Darwish