Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
Yehuda AmichaiHere (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
Yehuda AmichaiThe phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.
Yehuda AmichaiI wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
Yehuda Amichai