46 Quotes by Yehuda Amichai

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.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

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.

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.

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.

Yes, all of this is sorrow. But leave a little love burning always like the small bulb in the room of a sleeping baby that gives him a bit of security and quiet love though he doesn’t know what the light is or where it comes from.

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.