I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery. Yehuda Amichai More Quotes by Yehuda Amichai More Quotes From Yehuda Amichai Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity. Yehuda Amichai jerusalemisraelcities From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring. Yehuda Amichai growsflowerspring The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning. Yehuda Amichai lastslanguagesoul Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege. Yehuda Amichai siegekindnesslove-is And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence. Yehuda Amichai silencetogetherlove 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 lightdarkyears 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 politicalmenmean Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding. Yehuda Amichai hidingbehindshappiness There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge. Yehuda Amichai languageseemstwo 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 doctorsintelligentartist Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone. Yehuda Amichai tearsshiningeye 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 realdrinkingwriting 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 religiouschildrenthinking 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 lightwhitethinking It was not an adventure; it was my life. Yehuda Amichai adventure Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere. Yehuda Amichai gamescountrychildren The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. Yehuda Amichai poetreasonwriting 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 wiredespairneeds 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 stampstrade 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 airportsfeelingssheep
