Emma Lazarus Quotes

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.