She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

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.

And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.