The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
Yehuda AmichaiAnd 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 AmichaiEven if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda AmichaiI 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