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.
I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.
The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.
From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.