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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

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Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

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

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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

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Without hope we are lost.

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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

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Biography

Nationality: Palestinian

Type: Poet

Born: March 13th, 1941

Died: August 9th, 2008

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