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

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.

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

God has pity on kindergarten children

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.