Once A Great Love

Yehuda AmichaiYehuda Amichai

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Once a great love cut my life in two.
The first part goes on twisting
at some other place like a snake cut in two.The passing years have calmed me
and brought healing to my heart and rest to my eyes.And I'm like someone standing in the Judean desert, looking at a sign:
"Sea Level"
He cannot see the sea, but he knows.Thus I remember your face everywhere
at your "face Level."
Yehuda Amichai
About the poet

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 re…

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