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.
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.
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
