<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540380" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What Kind Of A Person</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;What kind of a person are you,&quot; I heard them say to me.<br>I'm a person with a complex plumbing of the soul,<br>Sophisticated instruments of feeling and a system<br>Of controlled memory at the end of the twentieth century,<br>But with an old body from ancient times<br>And with a God even older than my body.<br>I'm a person for the surface of the earth.<br>Low places, caves and wells<br>Frighten me. Mountain peaks<br>And tall buildings scare me.<br>I'm not like an inserted fork,<br>Not a cutting knife, not a stuck spoon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm not flat and sly<br>Like a spatula creeping up from below.<br>At most I am a heavy and clumsy pestle<br>Mashing good and bad together<br>For a little taste<br>And a little fragrance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arrows do not direct me. I conduct<br>My business carefully and quietly<br>Like a long will that began to be written<br>The moment I was born.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">s Now I stand at the side of the street<br>Weary, leaning on a parking meter.<br>I can stand here for nothing, free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm not a car, I'm a person,<br>A man-god, a god-man<br>Whose days are numbered. Hallelujah.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yehuda+Amichai">Yehuda Amichai</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540380" data-title="What Kind Of A Person de Yehuda Amichai" data-description="&quot;What kind of a person are you,&quot; I heard them say to me. I'm a person with a complex plumbing of the soul, Sophisticated instruments of feeling and a system Of controlled memory at the end of the twentieth century, But with an old body f..."></div> </div> </div>

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