I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclea….

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions..

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,….

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory..

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book..

I see poetry as spiritual medicine..

Palestinian people are in love with life..

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home..

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality..

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller.

I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Ho….

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity..

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

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor..

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry..

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room..

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it..

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism..

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..

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

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct….