"Jerusalem is a port city on the shore…" — Yehuda Amichai
"Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity."
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25 Quotes by Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai has 25 quotes on this site.
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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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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…
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
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