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
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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.
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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.
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The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature-is comparative time.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
soul lasts language
The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,
sheep airports feelings
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.
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God has pity on kindergarten children
despair wire fields
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.
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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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.
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.