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

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

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.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.