My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.

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

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.