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

Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.

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.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

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.

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