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.

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.

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.