I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Next Quote I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. - Shmuel Yosef Agnon Previous Quote But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem. - Shmuel Yosef Agnon