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

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

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

And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.

Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?