Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding..

God has pity on kindergarten children.

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….

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

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..

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….

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

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

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

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 ….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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 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..

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