I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
... 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.