Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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

God has pity on kindergarten children

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.

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

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

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.