Il diametro della bomba era di trenta centimetri e il diametro del suo raggio d’azione era di circa sette metri, con quattro morti e undici feriti... E non parliamo nemmeno del pianto degli orfani che si leva fino al trono di Dio e ben oltre, creando un creando un cerchio senza fine e senza Dio.

— Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai Quotes

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

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

— Yehuda Amichai

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

— Yehuda Amichai

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

— Yehuda Amichai

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

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

— Yehuda Amichai

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature-is comparative time.

— 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.

— Yehuda Amichai

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.

— Yehuda Amichai

God has pity on kindergarten children.

— Yehuda Amichai

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.

— Yehuda Amichai

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.

— Yehuda Amichai

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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

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

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

— Yehuda Amichai

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

— Yehuda Amichai

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

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

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

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.

— Yehuda Amichai

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