My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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.
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
Palestinian people are in love with life.
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.