"Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes,……" — Yehuda Amichai
"Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone."
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25 Quotes by Yehuda Amichai
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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…
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A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my…
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Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic…
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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…
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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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Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the…
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More Eye Quotes
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
— Aristotle
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and…
— Neil Armstrong
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
— Victoria Abril
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
— Margaret Atwood
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He…
— Teresa of Avila
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