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

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.

I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

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

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.