Yehuda Amichai Quotes

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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

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

God has pity on kindergarten children.
He has less pity on school children.
And on grownups he has no pity at all, he leaves them alone,
and sometimes they must crawl on all fours in the burning sand to reach the first-aid station covered with blood.

Yehuda Amichai

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, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.

Yehuda Amichai

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

Yehuda Amichai

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

Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai

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

Yehuda Amichai on Wikipedia

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