I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.
Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.