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.

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.

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.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

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.