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

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

I wish I were a candle in the darkness.

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