Quotes About Mahmoud Darwish

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

So let there be prose. There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph

Out of jasmine the night's blood streams white. Your perfume, my weakness and your secret, follows me like a snakebite. — Mahmoud Darwish, from "Sonnet V," The Butterfly's Burden (Copper Canyon Press, August 1, 2006)