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.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

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.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.