Yehuda Amichai Quotes

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

Yehuda Amichai

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: May 3, 1924 - September 22, 2000

Topics

HistoryPoliticsTeaPoetryReality

I miss being in the locker room with all my buddies. That, to me, was so much fun.

Jim Kelly

FunMeRoomMissBeingBuddies

I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

LoveTruthCreateEmotionalFiction

When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.

Joe Wright

LifeMyselfCollegeWorldMy Life

Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

Melissa Etheridge

FunnyWordsPeopleSongArtistGive

In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be used by German planes to navigate. As a 'youth in training,' my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working.

Michael Bond

JobTrainingYouthNightLandAir

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole mature realm of accomplishments and responsibilities, an identity outside of being a writer.

Amor Towles

LifeChildrenIdentityWritingTwo

God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.

Monica Johnson

WorkGodPeopleDoingRememberUs

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

Lucio Tan

BuySellThing

Our planet is warming dangerously.

Jose Angel Gurria

PlanetOurDangerouslyWarming

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

Dick Cavett

HomeParentsSorryFeelTeachPoor

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

Douglas Fairbanks

HoldUsDiseaseOnceGood-ByeGets

To this day, I am so grateful I grew up in Rochester, New York.

Donna Lynne Champlin

DayGratefulI AmNew YorkNewUp

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