The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.