“How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted, sure that you would not die with your work unended, as if the iron scythe in the grass stops for a flower? Charles Reznikoff
“The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.Charles Reznikoff
“By all means, then, let us have psalms and days of dedication anew to the old causes.Charles Reznikoff
“I have learnt the Hebrew blessing before eating bread; is there no blessing before reading Hebrew? Charles Reznikoff