Occupation: Poet Birth: March 13, 1941 Death: August 9, 2008
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….
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it..
The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives..
Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating..
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language..
We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are..
If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up..
And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction..
We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope..
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance..
And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness..
... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs..
My love, I fear the silence of your hands..
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I w….
And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late..
Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?.
One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions..
I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close ….
Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third..
The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light a….
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 ….