Yehuda Amichai Quotes

Israel, Poet
May 3, 1924 – September, 22, 2000.

Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: יהודה עמיחי‎; ‎3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was 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.

Also known as Writer, Educationalist, Educator

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

Yehuda Amichai
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

Yehuda Amichai
- House
- Politics
- Drinking

I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.

Yehuda Amichai
- Time
- Light
- Dark
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.

Yehuda Amichai
- True
- Hope
- Mine Field