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Yehuda Amichai

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A child is something else again. Wakes up …

Yehuda Amichai

On summer nights I sleep naked …

Yehuda Amichai

They amputated …

Yehuda Amichai

My father built a great worry around me like a dock …

Yehuda Amichai

I …

Yehuda Amichai

In the middle of this century we turned to each other …

Yehuda Amichai

It's been a while since they asked, Who lives in between these …

Yehuda Amichai

We forget where we came from. Our Jewish …

Yehuda Amichai

Like our bodies' imprint …

Yehuda Amichai

Inside the brand-new museum …

Yehuda Amichai

On Friday, at twilight of a summer day …

Yehuda Amichai

Mr. Beringer, whose son …

Yehuda Amichai

On my desk there is a stone with the word “Amen” on it, …

Yehuda Amichai

I passed by the school where I studied as a boy …

Yehuda Amichai

Not the peace of a cease-fire, …

Yehuda Amichai

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