After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:31]

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:34]

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.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:40]