The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.