Il diametro della bomba era di trenta centimetri e il diametro del suo raggio d’azione era di circa sette metri, con quattro morti e undici feriti... E non parliamo nemmeno del pianto degli orfani che si leva fino al trono di Dio e ben oltre, creando un creando un cerchio senza fine e senza Dio.
Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.
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.
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.
And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children’s games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.