Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
From Mahmoud Darwish
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
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.
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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.
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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