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

- Yehuda Amichai

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

- Yehuda Amichai

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

- Yehuda Amichai

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 darkn…

- Yehuda Amichai

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

- Yehuda Amichai

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

- Yehuda Amichai

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

- Yehuda Amichai

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

- Yehuda Amichai

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