Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

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The long road has drained me of all feelings and expectations. I don't feel a thing or expect anything now.

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

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

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

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

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

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

We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.

So which of your Lord's favors do you two deny? You and I are absent, you and I are present and absent. So which of your Lord's favors do you two deny?

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 poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.

Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.

Come with me tonight so that we might make tonight a shared past, says the one afflicted with longing. I will come with you to make a shared tomorrow, says the one afflicted with love. She does not love the past and wants to forget the war that has ended. He fears tomorrow, because the war has not ended and he does not want to grow older.

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.