Occupation: Poet Birth: June 21, 1945
In summer the empire of insects spreads..
Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form..
And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act ….
I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean..
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for que….
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers..
But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pa….
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of ….
Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his abilit….
This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets..
Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because….
A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows..
Human life and objects and trees vibrate with mysterious meanings, which can be deciphered like cuneiform writing. There exists a meaning, hidden fro….
Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed..