Without hope we are lost.
From Mahmoud Darwish
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.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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.
Palestinian people are in love with life.
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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