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

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

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

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

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

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.

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.