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Without hope we are lost.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.
Palestinian people are in love with life.
My love, I fear the silence of your hands.
May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
On this earth there is that which deserves life.
Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.
One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.
I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.
The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.
We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.
The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.
Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.
I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.
Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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.
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.
I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.
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.