Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

Love cannot reconcile with deception

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

Its as if you think you'd never findReason and the Sacred intertwined

Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.

Whatever God gives you enjoy!

The earth is a spaceship. While you are here, enjoy the ride.

Slogan-making is not poetry.

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!