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

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

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.

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

Palestinian people are in love with life.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.