when I finally begin to driftinto sleepyour memory is the...firstand the moonlightthe last, to kiss my face.

some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.

...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye.

there are some poemsthat we leave behindsome that leave us behindwhile some just livesilentlyin the heartcrumble, sometimesdwindledisappeardieand are rebornwhen you smile again.

it was the kind of moonthat I would want to send back to my ancestorsand gift to my descendantsso they know that I too, have been bruised...by beauty.

because some thingssometimesaren't ours to hold, but just beautiful to listen to.

i'm glad to be alive in a world wherehis gently awakening eyesnourish the morning sun.

and the afterglow...of your gaze...is the onlysweater that I need.

there is some achingthat will only heal...in the mosque of sleep.

i want to stay curled and cosiedand chocolated....foreverin my mother’s arms.

leave me some musicthat’s chocolate for the heart.

flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

And if I'm the stars, Cricket Bell is entire galaxies.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.