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
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
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
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza
There always have been funny women.
Vanessa Bayer
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
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.
Charles Dickens
Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.
Vladimir Putin
A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
I am Alberto Del Rio, but you already knew that.
Alberto Del Rio
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai