- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without hope we are lost.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Palestinian people are in love with life.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020