All Yehuda Amichai Quotes
- Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity. Cities
- 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,… Been
- 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… Airport
- Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing… Artist
- Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. Drinking
- God has pity on kindergarten children Children
- Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding. All
- And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence. From
- Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege. Kindness
- The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning, Foreign
- From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring. Flower
- Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone. Eye
- 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… Days
- I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet. Civilian
- 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. Deeper
- The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. Advertise
- There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge. Inspirational
- 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… Big
- I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good… Allows
- 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… All
- The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or… Children
- 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. Barbed
- And what will you do now? You'll collect loves Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one Will trade you and you have the damaged… Collect
- It was not an adventure; it was my life. Adventure
- The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers… Body