Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

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.

Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.

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

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