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 AmichaiA flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.
Yehuda AmichaiAnd as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
Yehuda AmichaiKnowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
Yehuda AmichaiI was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
Yehuda Amichai