We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

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

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

Palestinian people are in love with life.

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