Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

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

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

What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones.

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.

I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.

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.