The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. Read Summary
Palestinian people are in love with life. Read Summary
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism. Read Summary
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. Read Summary
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. Read Summary
I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility. Read Summary
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. Read Summary
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Read Summary
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. Read Summary
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. Read Summary
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews. Read Summary
I see poetry as spiritual medicine. Read Summary
The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace. Read Summary
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language. Read Summary
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions. Read Summary
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. Read Summary
The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation. Read Summary
Without hope we are lost. Read Summary
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. Read Summary
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. Read Summary