And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.

What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.

I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry.