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

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

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

God has pity on kindergarten children

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

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.