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

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.

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.

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.

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

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.