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.

God has pity on kindergarten children

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.

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.

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.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.