One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind this dispossessed place... I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work and their hurry to return to their folk... and their need to say: Good Morning.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold