Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

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 would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

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

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

Before you ask for the people to rise up and take what's theirs, meet the people, because they're really, really, bafoons.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

Everyone has to learn to work with people - it's part of being an adult, too.