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Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring."

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



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning."

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.




Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege."

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



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding."

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.




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

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



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "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."

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.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge."

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.




Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "It was not an adventure; it was my life."

It was not an adventure; it was my life.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "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 even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it."

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 even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world."

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.



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

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



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "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."

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.




Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery."

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet."

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "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 they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos."

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 they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere."

Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones."

What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time."

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "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 and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body."

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 and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "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 plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time."

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 plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "God has pity on kindergarten children"

God has pity on kindergarten children



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "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 fairy tales."

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 fairy tales.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet."

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics."

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.



Yehuda Amichai Quotes: "Now and then, I remember you in timesUnbelievable. And in places not made for memoryBut for the transient, the passing that does not remain."

Now and then, I remember you in timesUnbelievable. And in places not made for memoryBut for the transient, the passing that does not remain.