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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/and-i-said-to-myself-that-s-true-hope-needs-to-be-like-barbed-wire-to/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

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## More by Yehuda Amichai

> [“Out of three or four in a room One is always standing at the window Hair dark above his thoughts Behind him the words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/out-of-three-or-four-in-a-room-one-is-always-standing-at-the-window/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/and-as-we-stray-further-from-love-we-multiply-the-words-had-we/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/from-the-place-where-we-are-right-flowers-will-not-grow-in-the-spring/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/i-ve-never-been-in-those-places-where-i-ve-never-been-and-never-will/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [It was not an adventure; it was my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/it-was-not-an-adventure-it-was-my-life/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [“When you smile, serious ideas get exhausted. At night the mountains keep quiet beside you, in the morning the sand goes with you down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/when-you-smile-serious-ideas-get-exhausted-at-night-the-mountains/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/jerusalem-is-a-port-city-on-the-shore-of-eternity/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [“People use each other as a healing for their pain. They put each other on their existential wound, on the eye, on the cunt,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/people-use-each-other-as-a-healing-for-their-pain-they-put-each-other/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [“Spy (1973) Many years ago, I was sent to spy out the land beyond the age of thirty. And I stayed there and didn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/spy-1973-many-years-ago-i-was-sent-to-spy-out-the-land-beyond-the-age/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [“Look, just as time isn't inside clocks love isn't inside bodies: bodies only tell the love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/look-just-as-time-isn-t-inside-clocks-love-isn-t-inside-bodies-bodies/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [“Try to remember some details. For the world is filled with people who were torn from their sleep with no one to mend the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/try-to-remember-some-details-for-the-world-is-filled-with-people-who/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/love-is-like-a-reservoir-of-kindness-and-pleasure-like-silos-and/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/here-jerusalem-tears-do-not-weaken-the-eyes-they-only-polish-and/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [“A man doesn't have time in his life to have time for everything. He doesn't have seasons enough to have a season for every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/a-man-doesn-t-have-time-in-his-life-to-have-time-for-everything-he/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

> [“I believe with perfect faith that at this very moment millions of human beings are standing at crossroads and intersections, in jungles and deserts,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/i-believe-with-perfect-faith-that-at-this-very-moment-millions-of/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

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