I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

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.

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.

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

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