My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller
... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.
We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
Without hope we are lost.
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.
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.