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While training for the teaching profession, he began to attract attention in literary circles. Among the admirers of his poetry was a (non-Jewish) physician, Johanna van Marseveen, whom he subsequently married.
He continued to write poetry along these lines throughout his Zionist and anti-Zionist phases. Here is a sample, from Kwatrijnen
Twijfel Wat wacht ik in dit avonduur, De Stad beslopen door de slaap, Gezeten bij de Tempelmuur; God of de Marokkaanse Knaap?
Wat wacht ik in dit avonduur, De Stad beslopen door de slaap, Gezeten bij de Tempelmuur; God of de Marokkaanse Knaap?
Die te Amsterdam vaak zei 'Jeruzalem' En naar Jeruzalem gedreven kwam Hij zegt met een mijmrende stem: 'Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
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