Mahmoud Darwich citations

“Tu déchires des nuages et tu les envoies en direction du vent. Et alors?
Il est des nuages très fertiles et cela requiert un sol approprié.”

“Nous n'avons pas d'État, mais nous avons beaucoup d'humour.”

“Celui qui m'a changé en exilé m'a changé en bombe… Palestine est devenue mille corps mouvants sillonnant les rues du monde, chantant le chant de la mort, car le nouveau Christ, descendu de sa croix, porta bâton et sortit de Palestine.”

“If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.”

“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”

“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”

“My love, I fear the silence of your hands.”

“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.”

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

“Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”

“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.”