Yehuda Amichai

Israeli poet (1924-2000).

Born May 3rd, 1924 in Würzburg. [ref]

Died September 22nd, 2000 at 76 years old in Jerusalem (cancer). [ref]

Occupations
educator, novelist, playwright, poet, translator, writer
Wikipedia

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel