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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

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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.

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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.

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When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

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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.

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Palestinian people are in love with life.

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I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

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Biography

Nationality: Palestinian

Type: Poet

Born: March 13th, 1941

Died: August 9th, 2008

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