Yehuda Amichai Quotes
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Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
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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,…
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A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but…
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Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing…
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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God has pity on kindergarten children
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Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
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The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,
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From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
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Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
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Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of…
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
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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.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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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…
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good…
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of…
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