For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.

Sometimes small things lead to great joys.

Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of authors whose names, in my ignorance, I have not even heard, while others see the influences of poets whose names I have heard but whose writings I have not read. And what is my opinion? From whom did I receive nurture? Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.