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

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.

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

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

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.