Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichaiwas 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...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 May 1924
CountryIsrael
writing reason poet
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
cities calm cemetery
I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
stamps trade
And what will you do now? You'll collect loves Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one Will trade you and you have the damaged ones.
intelligent artist doctors
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.
time night thinking
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.
drinking writing glasses
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
children kindergarten pity
God has pity on kindergarten children
despair wire fields
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.
adventure
It was not an adventure; it was my life.
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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.