Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

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.

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

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

On this earth there is that which deserves life.

I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.