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.

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.

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.

God has pity on kindergarten children

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.