I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

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.

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.

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.