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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
Yehuda Amichai
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Yehuda Amichai
Age: 76 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 3
Died: 2000
Died: September 22
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Kreisfreie Stadt Würzburg
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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.
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I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
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I 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.
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