When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
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.
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.