From The Place Where We Are Right,

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.

From The Place Where We Are Right, Flowers Will Not Grow In The Spring.

I Was A Very Religious Child - I Went To Synagogue At Least Once, Sometimes Twice, A Day. And I Remember My Religiousness As Good - I Think Religion Is Good For Children, Especially Educated Children, Because It Allows For Imagination, A Whole Imaginative World Apart From The Practical World.

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.

I Wanted To Be Calm, Like A Mound With All Its Cities Destroyed, And Tranquil, Like A Full Cemetery.