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
cities jerusalem eternity
Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
kindness love-is siege
Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
spring flower grows
From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
happiness hiding great-happiness
Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
dark light years
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.
love silence together
And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
two language seems
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
country children games
Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
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.
children world stories
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.
memories father taken
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.
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.