Quotes from Yehuda Amichai

Now and then, I remember you in times Unbelievable. And in places not made for memory But for the transient, the passing that does not remain.

Only my penis is still free and happy, no good for sword fights and no good for any work, or even for hanging things on, or for digging trenches. Praise be to God that it is so.

Spy (1973) Many years ago, I was sent to spy out the land beyond the age of thirty. And I stayed there and didn't go back to my senders, so as not to be made to tell about this land and made to lie.

Out of three or four in a room One is always standing at the window Hair dark above his thoughts Behind him the words And in front of him the words, wandering without luggage Hearts without provision, prophecies without water, And big stones put there And stayed, closed, like letters, With no adresses; and no one to receive them.

My girlfriend forgot her love on the sidewalk like a bicycle. All night outside, in the dew.