Literature is a state of culture poetry is a state of grace before and after culture.

Once every five hundred years or so a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally but reason does not relieve us of them.

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things but they are the state of human existence.

For me poetry is a situation - a state of being a way of facing life and facing history.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development and epitomizes both.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security.

The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution built on international law for sustainable peace and development and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.

Only the change on the international scene the crisis in the gulf and the strong firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat the leader of the PLO the representative of the Palestinian people with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state entity next to us living in peace.