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

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

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.

God has pity on kindergarten children

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

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.

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