Poet Writes Quotes 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…

— Yehuda Amichai

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

— Yehuda Amichai

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

— 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…

— Yehuda Amichai

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

— 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…

— Yehuda Amichai

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

— 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,…

— 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…

— Yehuda Amichai

“Look, just as time isn't inside clocks love isn't inside bodies: bodies only tell the love.”

— 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…

— Yehuda Amichai

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

— Yehuda Amichai

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

— 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…

— 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,…

— Yehuda Amichai