“What is poetry which does not save nations or people?”

“I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.”

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...”

“The purpose of poetry is to remind ushow difficult it is to remain just one person,for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.”

“Human reason is beautiful and invincible.No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.It puts what should be above things as they are.It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.”

“You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!”

“A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.”