“I learnt all the words worthy of the court of bloodSo that I could break the ruleI learnt all the words and broke them upTo make a single word:Homeland..”

“Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my lastpoem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from meonly the words dedicated to my wife's heart.”

“I am from there. I am from here.I am not there and I am not here.I have two names, which meet and part,and I have two languages.I forget which of them I dream in.”

“I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold”

“I know who opens the door to the jasmine treeas it makes our dreams blossom for the evening's guests.”

“I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind this dispossessed place... I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work and their hurry to return to their folk... and their need to say: Good Morning...”

“She does not love you.Your metaphors thrill heryou are her poet.But that's all there's to it.from “She Does Not Love You”