Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

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

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.

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.