The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

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

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

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

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.