Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.

GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.