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Born: 1941-03-13
Profession: Poet
Nation: Palestinian
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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.

Tags: Die, May, Place

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

Tags: Beauty, Peace, Poetry

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

Tags: Concept, House, Room

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

Tags: Between, Israel, Tension

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

Tags: Both, History, Victim

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

Tags: Hate, Israel, Reason

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

Tags: Light, Poetry, Power

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

Tags: Full, Memory, Self

I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

Tags: Afraid, Children, Wanted

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

Tags: Medicine, Poetry, Spiritual

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

Tags: Homeland, Language, State

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

Tags: Justifies, Terrorism

Palestinian people are in love with life.

Tags: Life, Love

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

Tags: Pain, Reality, Smile

The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

Tags: Accept, Peace, Strong

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Tags: Importance, Poetry, Says

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

Tags: Palestine, Reality, Stronger

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

Tags: Good, Occupation, Poetry

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

Tags: Bad, Best, Book

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

Tags: Age, Control, Learned

Without hope we are lost.

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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.

Tags: Against, Human, Poetry

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.'

Tags: Change, Poetry, Trust

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.

Tags: Mother, Sometimes, Write

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.

Tags: Nation, Today, Tomorrow
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