Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

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

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 want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.