Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.

I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

Without hope we are lost.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.