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

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.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

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.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

Im high maintenance, but Im worth it.

Photography is the product of complete alienation.

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men

whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.