Without hope we are lost.

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 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.

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

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

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

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.