Palestinian people are in love with life.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

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 want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

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

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.