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

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.

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

We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as Orientalists portray it. Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.

My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

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

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