"A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos."

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Source : Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.152, Univ of California Press

Yehuda Amichai

#Sheep Quotes #Airports Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in. "You," I said knocking it off his face. "Me!" He answered cheerfully.”
“Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.”
“If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside... that's how your temper will cool down.”
“Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.”
“Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.”
“The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.”
“The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.”

Source : Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions
“Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.”

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