Yehuda Amichai Quotes

Yehuda Amichai

Israeli Poet

Born: May 3, 1924

Died: Sep 22, 2000

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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. Yehuda Amichai

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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. Yehuda Amichai

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

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

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I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it. Yehuda Amichai

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