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

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.

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.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

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

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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.