I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?

The image of love reveals itself there; in a profoundly present absence.

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

They asked do you love her to death?

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.