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.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

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

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.

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.

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.