I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
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.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.
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 write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.