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I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

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The wise are above books.

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The stars that have most glory have no rest.

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Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

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And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

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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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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

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

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

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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

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Palestinian people are in love with life.

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Without hope we are lost.

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