Poet’s Corner

“I did everything I wanted to do. I have no regrets.”

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“Is this the birthday house?”

“He got up, put on his black vest and jacket, adjusted his gold-rimmed spectacles and his black hat, and stepped into the courtyard. There before Weingarten stood a middle-aged British major wearing the yellow-and-red insignia of the Suffolk Regiment. From his right hand dangled a bar of rusted iron almost a foot long. With a solemn gesture he offered it to the elderly rabbi. It was a key, the key to Zion Gate, one of the seven gates of the Old City of Jerusalem.

‘From the year 70 A.D. until today,” he said, “a key to the gates of Jerusalem has never been in Jewish hands. This is the first time in eighteen centuries that your people have been so privileged.’

Weingarten extended a trembling hand to accept the key. Jewish legend held that on the night the Roman Emperor Titus destroyed the Temple, its despairing priests had thrown the keys of Jerusalem to heaven crying ‘God, henceforth be Thou the guardian of the keys.’ Now the improbable agent of their return to Jewish hands stood to attention and saluted.”

Larry Collins
& Dominique Lapierre

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”

“First they came for the Socialists,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left
to speak for me.”

“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”

“I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord watches over you— the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

“There is nothing to writing Gellhorn; all you do is sit down at your typewriter and bleed.”

“In the dessert there are no lights to steal the glory of the stars.”

“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.”