It was not an adventure; it was my life..

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….

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

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity..

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

I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkn….

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..

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone….

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

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

Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how….

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 ….

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal….

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

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the….

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, histo….

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring..

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

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time..

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..

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone..