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.

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

Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones.

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.

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