And I Tell Myself, A Moon Will

I Learnt All The Words Worthy Of The Court Of Blood So That I Could Break The Rule I Learnt All The Words And Broke Them Up To Make A Single Word: Homeland.

When A Writer Declares That His First Book Is His Best, That Is Bad. I Progress Successively From Book To Book.

Nothing Is Harder On The Soul, Than The Smell Of Dreams, While They're Evaporating.

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.

My Love, I Fear The Silence Of Your Hands.