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It was not an adventure; it was my life.

Like a butcher sharpening knife on knife
I sharpen heart on heart inside me.

And what will you do now? You'll collect loves
Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one
Will trade you and you have the damaged ones.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

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

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

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

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

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

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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

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

Now and then, I remember you in times
Unbelievable. And in places not made for memory
But for the transient, the passing that does not remain.

Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself
without anyone noticing.

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

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

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

Look, just as time isn't inside clocks
love isn't inside bodies:
bodies only tell the love.

I know a man
who photographed the view he saw
from the window of the room where he made love
and not the face of the woman he loved there.

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.