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

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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.

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

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.

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.