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Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“Time is a smooth river for the one who does not notice it, and fierce and brutal for the one who gazes at it and is snatched by the abyss.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Time
“Love is neither happiness nor misery, but rather the senses finding the harmony and discord of resemblance through ever-renewing desire.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Definitions of Love, Love, The Real Meaning of Love
“Dreams will find their dreamers and all a dreamer has to do is remember.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Dreams, How To Escape Into A Dream, Ideals
“Pain does not see and cannot be seen: it is the nothing growing full.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Nothingness
“Why did we rush so much when the end is obvious and the beginning is obscure?”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: That Space Between Birth and Death, Being Born & Dying
“As if writing were, like love, the offspring of a cloud. When you touch it, it melts.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Writing & Expression, Truth, Truth as Movement, Liquid Prose
“Give birth to me from a grain of wheat, not from a wound. Give birth to me and take me back to a world before meaning, so I can embrace you on the grass. Do you hear me?”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Follow Me Into A New World
“In her absence I created her image: out of the earthly the hidden heavenly commences.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In Her Absence I Created Her Image
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy, The Story of God & Man, Love Image As Escape, Idealized Images, Imagined Maden, The Beatrice Effect
“Grasp your own reality and grasp your name and learn how to write your own proof.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Own Your Identity, Be Your Own Truth, Inner Truth, Write Your Own Story, What Others Think Does Not Matter
“And you became like coffee
In the deliciousness
And the bitterness
And the addiction.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, A Quote by Mahmoud Darwish
Tagged: Metaphor, Love, Addiction, Coffee
“Letters lie before you, so release them from their neutrality and play with them like a conqueror in a delirious universe.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Writing, Creative Expression, Making The World With Words, Language, Delirium, Create Realms
“Longing is the absent chatting with the absent.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Missing You, Absent, Alone
“Remember yourself before all turns to dust.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Death, Dust, Memory, Time Vanishes
“What doesn’t resemble me is more beautiful.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, To a Young Poet
Tagged: Diversity, See More, Beauty In Difference, More Eyes
“From afar, the poems come.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Transcendental, Poetical Circuits, Where The Words Come From
“I am from here, I am from there, yet am neither here nor there.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
Tagged: Exile, Living Apart, Everywhere But Nowhere, Specter of Me
“I do not know who is dead and who is alive inside you.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Different Levels of Death & Life Inside of Us, Parts of Us Age At Different Speeds
“You are almost you.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Identity & Self, Never Ending Story, Always Still More To Learn
“The sun fills your heart with the light of oranges.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Tagged: Light, Sun, Good Morning, Sun Renewal
“Truth is white, write over it.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, To a Young Poet
Tagged: Life Is Blank Slate, Write Your Own Story, Identity Creation, Creating Yourself, Self-Invention
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