I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

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

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

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.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

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