Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
Mahmoud Darwish
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”
“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”
“The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.”
“Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of my father's house. Take me to your vineyard. Let me meet your mother. Perfume me with basil water. Arrange me on silver dishes, comb me, imprison me in your name, let love kill me.”
“No night is long enough for us to dream twice.”
“I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.”
“We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April’s hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman’s point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute’s sigh and the invaders’ fear of memories.”
“I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold”
“The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.”
“Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last poem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from me only the words dedicated to my wife's heart.”
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