Amichai's poetry contains characteristics of emotions from being happy, to sad, and self mockery. He is known as one of the leading Hebrew poets.
I Don't Know If History Repeats Itself by Yehuda Amichai
I don't Know if history repeats itself
But I do know that you don't.
I remember that city was didvided
Not only between Jews and Arabs,
But Between me and you,
When we were there together.
We made ourselves a womb of dangers
We built ourselves a house of deadening wars
Like men of far north
Who build themselves a safe warm house of deadening ice.
The city has been reunited
But we haven't been there together.
By now I know
That History doesn't repeat itself,
As I always knew that you wouldn't.
But I do know that you don't.
I remember that city was didvided
Not only between Jews and Arabs,
But Between me and you,
When we were there together.
We made ourselves a womb of dangers
We built ourselves a house of deadening wars
Like men of far north
Who build themselves a safe warm house of deadening ice.
The city has been reunited
But we haven't been there together.
By now I know
That History doesn't repeat itself,
As I always knew that you wouldn't.
"Yehuda Amichai/ Poems," Famous Poets and Poems.com. Accessed on Jan 4, 2012. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/yehuda_amichai/poems/50
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