46 Quotes by Yehuda Amichai

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.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

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.

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.

Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

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

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.