To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

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

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