Quotes by Yehuda Amichai - Page 1

God has pity on kindergarten children
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Children
Kindergarten
Pity
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It was not an adventure; it was my life.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
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Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Happiness
Behinds
Hiding
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Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Cities
Israel
Jerusalem
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Humans
Poet
Trying
Civilian
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The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Language
Lasts
Soul
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From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Flower
Grows
Spring
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Language
Seems
Two
Languages
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Poet
Reason
Writing
Advertise
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Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Kindness
Love Is
Siege
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Drinking
Glasses
Writing
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I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Calm
Cemetery
Cities
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Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Eye
Shining
Tears
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The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Phrases
Play
Use
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Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Children
Country
Games
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Love
Silence
Together
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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 / Poet
Despair
Needs
Wire
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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 / Poet
Men
Be A Man
Deeper
Mean
Political
Time Man Political
Word
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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 / Poet
Stamps
Trade
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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 / Poet
Artist
Doctors
Intelligent
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Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Artist
Describing
Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Mathematician
Poetic
Scientist
Seeing
Doctor
Possesses
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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 / Poet
Children
Fairy
Logical
Stories
Tales
World
Fairy Tales
Similar
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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 / Poet
Time
Night
Thinking
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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 / Poet
Father
Memories
Taken
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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 / Poet
Black Hole
Light
Meaningless
Thinking
White
Explain
Hole
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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 / Poet
Airports
Feelings
Sheep
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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 infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.
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Dark
Light
Years
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
History
Drinking
House
Political
Real
Reality
Response
Said
Sitting
Tea
Writing
Because
Part
Deal
Often
Human
Even
Glass
Making
Poems
Reflects
Writes
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
Yehuda Amichai / Poet
Children
Educated
Imaginative
Religious
Synagogue
Thinking
Twice
Apart
Practical
Twice A Day
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