I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

And you became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

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.

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

I carry my burdens to the Lord. He lightens my shoulders.

When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

There were stars. They burned my eyes.

It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!