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

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

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

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

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

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

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.