I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens. As an apple tree among the tr...ees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go, pretty child, and bear this flower Unto thy little Saviour;... And tell Him, by that bud now blown, He is the Rose of Sharon known.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we ...are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The symmetrical piles of white bodies, the round white breast-shapes of the heaps,... the smell of the smoke, the dogs the wires the rope the hunger. It had happened to others. There was a word for us. I was: a Jew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You survived because you were the first. You survived because you were the last.... Because alone. Because the others. Because on the left. Because on the right. Because it was raining. Because it was sunny. Because a shadow fell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »