Don’t say that poetry, my friend, is beautiful or powerful for there is no powerful or beautiful poetry There is poetry that strikes you, secretly with the diseases of writing and schizophrenia, and you rave and your self leaves you for another
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
Palestinian people are in love with life.
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.