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.

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

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.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

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.

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