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

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

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

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

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

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.