I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

- Mahmoud Darwish

If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.

- Mahmoud Darwish

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

- Mahmoud Darwish

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

- Mahmoud Darwish

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

- Mahmoud Darwish

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

- Mahmoud Darwish

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

- Mahmoud Darwish

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

- Mahmoud Darwish

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of…

- Mahmoud Darwish