"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."

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

"Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism."

"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."

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary."

"Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument."

"No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded."