"وَنَحْنُ نُحِبُّ الحَيَاةَ إذَا مَا اسْتَطَعْنَا إِلَيْهَا سَبِيلاَ وَنَرْقُصُ بَيْنَ شَهِيدْينِ نَرْفَعُ مِئْذَنَةً …"

"لو يذكرُ الزيتون غارسَهُ لصار الزيت دمعا"

"I have the wisdom of one condemned to death: I own nothing for anything to own me"

"My poems do not deliver mere images and metaphors; but deliver landscapes, villages and fields, deliver a place. It m…"

"The sea is the obsession of the poet, because the first poetic rhythm, or the first sense of poetic rhythm, was born …"

"I don't know what I want. Exile is so strong within me I may bring it to the land."

"In my last book I said: “I have one dream: to find a dream.” A dream is a piece of the sky found in everyone. We can’…"

"I encouraged the leadership in its time of weakness. Now that they are strong, I'm allowed not to applaud. If a Pales…"

"What is a homeland? It is a place that enables people to blossom, and not a place in which people serve the flag. In …"

"Interviewer: I know that the comparison between the Jewish fate and the Palestinian fate bothers you, because it hint…"