"The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet."

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Source : "Amichai, Israel´s Most Important and Influential Poet, Dies at 76". www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2000.

Yehuda Amichai

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“I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.”
“True abundance isn't based on our net worth, it's based on our self-worth.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 13, 2012
“[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.”

Source : Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (pp. 62-3)
“I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.”

Source : Source: www.afb.org
“There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.”
“The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.”
“To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”
“What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.”

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