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Yehuda Amichai quotes: It was not an adventure; it was my life.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

Yehuda Amichai quotes: Like a butcher sharpening knife on knife I sharpen heart on heart inside me.

Like a butcher sharpening knife on knife
I sharpen heart on heart inside me.

Yehuda Amichai quotes: 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.

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

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

Yehuda Amichai quotes: 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.

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

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

Yehuda Amichai quotes: Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

Yehuda Amichai quotes: Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

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

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

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

Yehuda Amichai quotes: From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

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

Yehuda Amichai quotes: Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

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

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

Yehuda Amichai quotes: The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,

Yehuda Amichai quotes: Now and then, I remember you in timesUnbelievable. And in places not made for memoryBut for the transient, the passing that does not remain.

Now and then, I remember you in times
Unbelievable. And in places not made for memory
But for the transient, the passing that does not remain.

Yehuda Amichai quotes: Sometimes I come crashing down inside myselfwithout anyone noticing.

Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself
without anyone noticing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yehuda Amichai quotes: Look, just as time isn't inside clockslove isn't inside bodies:bodies only tell the love.

Look, just as time isn't inside clocks
love isn't inside bodies:
bodies only tell the love.

Yehuda Amichai quotes: 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.

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

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

Yehuda Amichai quotes: And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to belike barbed wire to keep out despair,hope must be a mine field.

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.