Yehuda Amichai Quotes
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
Yahya Jammeh
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
Rachel Cusk
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
J. G. Ballard
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza
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There always have been funny women.
Vanessa Bayer
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
Tasha Smith
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He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself.
Plutarch
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Ex-members, even those with righteous complaints, tend to reconstruct their experiences — ambiguous situations at worst — into totally negative encounters. They tend to demonize the leaders and turn the members into zombielike followers. Harmless comments are recast into sinister threats, group jargon into conspirational fantasies.
J. Gordon Melton
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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Lucille Clifton
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I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.
Julie Kagawa
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For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.
Edward Feser
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
