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1. "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
2. "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
3. "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
4. "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
5. "The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet." ~ Yehuda Amichai
6. "I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet." ~ Yehuda Amichai
7. "My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time." ~ Yehuda Amichai
8. "There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge." ~ Yehuda Amichai
9. "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." ~ Yehuda Amichai
10. "And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to belike barbed wire to keep out despair,hope must be a mine field." ~ Yehuda Amichai
11. "And what will you do now? You'll collect lovesLike stamps. You've got doubles and no oneWill trade you and you have the damaged ones." ~ Yehuda Amichai
12. "It was not an adventure; it was my life." ~ Yehuda Amichai
13. "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
14. "I know a man who photographed the view he saw from the window of the room where he made love and not the face of the woman he loved there." ~ Yehuda Amichai
15. "In my life are many windowsand many graves.Sometimes they exchange roles:then a window is closed forever,then by way of a gravestoneI can seevery far. (Hebrew-to-English translation by Rabbi Steven Sager)" ~ Yehuda Amichai
16. "When you smile, serious ideas get exhausted. At night the mountains keep quiet beside you, in the morning the sand goes with you down to the beach. When you do nice things to me all the heavy industries shut down." ~ Yehuda Amichai
17. "Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity." ~ Yehuda Amichai
18. "People use each otheras a healing for their pain. They put each otheron their existential wound,on the eye, on the cunt, on mouth and open hand.They hold each other and won't let go." ~ Yehuda Amichai
19. "Spy (1973)Many years ago,I was sentto spy out the land beyond the age of thirty.And I stayed thereand didn't go back to my senders,so as not to be madeto tellabout this landand madeto lie." ~ Yehuda Amichai
20. "Try to remember some details. For the worldis filled with people who were torn from their sleepwith no one to mend the tear,and unlike wild beasts they liveeach in his lonely hiding place and they dietogether on battlefieldsand in hospitals.And the earth will swallow all of them,good and evil together, like the followers of Korah,all of them in their rebellion against death,their mouths open till the last moment,praising and cursing in a singlehowl. Try, tryto remember some details." ~ Yehuda Amichai
21. "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
22. "Out of three or four in a roomOne is always standing at the windowHair dark above his thoughts Behind him the wordsAnd in front of him the words, wandering without luggage Hearts without provision, prophecies without water, And big stones put there And stayed, closed, like letters, With no adresses; and no one to receive them." ~ Yehuda Amichai

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