Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:00]

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:17]

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]

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.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:45]