The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

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.

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

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.

... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.