Quote of the day
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Yehuda Amichai
Born: May 3, 1924
Died: September 22, 2000 (aged 76)
Bio: Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew.
Known for:
- Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (1986)
- Poems of Jerusalem (1988)
- Songs of Jerusalem and myself (1973)
- The world is a room and other stories
- The Early Books of Yehuda Amichai