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

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

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!