Amichai's works have touched the hearts and souls of readers around the world:
"Israel's best-known poet sifts centuries of Jewish experience in firsthand impressions
of his troubled land; moreover, he makes the particular universal...In their richness of
history, their ever-present political dimension, their sharing of a common frame of reference
with their audience, these poems are miles above almost anything in contemporary American verse".
Publishers Weekly
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"He is one of our great poets, a very accessible one. Once one has read his poems, one can never forget them - there can be so much life and truth in sixteen lines. Yehuda Amichai is a master."
Octavio Paz
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"For sheer energy of imagination, Amichai has no close competitors in the Israeli scene, and perhaps only few worldwide...He has a remarkable capacity for childlike playfulness, even when he is dead serious...I know of few living poets in whose work metaphor so often seems genuine discovery".
The New York Times Magazine
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"Yehuda Amichai considers poetry an essential part of life...There is a carnal, consoling aspect in Amichai's poetry that continuously derives its resources from life, childhood and love...his beautifully rendered scansions are moving".
Le Monde
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