About Yehuda Amichai
1924 - 2000/IsraeliYehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai was born in Germany, then immigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936. He fought in the Israeli War of Independence as a young man, but became an advocate of peace and reconciliation in the region, workin
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Poetry & Stories
A Dog After Love
After you left meI let a dog smell at
Forgetting Someone
Forgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the lightin the backyard so it stays lit all the next day But then it is the light that makes you remember.
Tourists
Visits of condolence is all we get from them.They squat at the Holocaust Memorial,
Before
Before the gate has been closed,before the last question is posed,
Jerusalem
On a roof in the Old CityLaundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight:
About Yehuda Amichai
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Who is Yehuda Amichai?
1924 - 2000/IsraeliYehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai was born in Germany, then immigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936.
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Kavishala has 16 poems and stories by Yehuda Amichai, free to read on this page, along with selected quotes you can share.
Poems & Stories by Yehuda Amichai
A Dog After Love
After you left meI let a dog smell at
Forgetting Someone
Forgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the lightin the backyard so it stays lit all the next day But then it is the light that makes you remember.
Tourists
Visits of condolence is all we get from them.They squat at the Holocaust Memorial,
Before
Before the gate has been closed,before the last question is posed,
Jerusalem
On a roof in the Old CityLaundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight:
A Man In His Life
A man doesn't have time in his lifeto have time for everything.
A Pity, We Were Such A Good Invention
They amputatedYour thighs off my hips.
Do Not Accept
Do not accept these rains that come too late.Better to linger. Make your pain
What Kind Of A Person
"What kind of a person are you," I heard them say to me.I'm a person with a complex plumbing of the soul,
I Don't Know If History Repeats Itself
I don't Know if history repeats itselfBut I do know that you don't.I remember that city was didvided
A Jewish Cemetery In Germany
On a little hill amid fertile fields lies a small cemetery,a Jewish cemetery behind a rusty gate, hidden by shrubs,
My Father
The memory of my father is wrapped up inwhite paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work.Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits
Selected Quotes by Yehuda Amichai (चुनिंदा उद्धरण)
I don't Know if history repeats itselfBut I do know that you don't.I remember that city was didvided
Before the gate has been closed,before the last question is posed,
Do not accept these rains that come too late.Better to linger. Make your pain
A man doesn't have time in his lifeto have time for everything.
On a roof in the Old CityLaundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight:
They amputatedYour thighs off my hips.
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