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 DarwishThe importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
Mahmoud DarwishI am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
Mahmoud DarwishThe Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
Mahmoud DarwishWe have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.
Mahmoud Darwish