Emma Lazarus quotes
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).
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“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (1987). “An Epistle to the Hebrews”, Jewish Historical Society of
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
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“I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Obituary in Century Magazine, 1887.
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“The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.142, Courier Corporation
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“Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.234, Broadview Press
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“There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.47, Broadview Press
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“Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.47, Broadview Press
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“The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.41, Broadview Press
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“Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate ...”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2014). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.22, Courier Corporation
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“No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.215, Courier Corporation
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“When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.236, Broadview Press
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“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : "The New Colossus" l. 1 (1883).
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“I am never going to write for the sake of writing.”
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“Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of bright, sure-coming spring; Yet the heart gathers hope and strange delight From this dear, unlovely, wished-for sight Of leaden-misted twilights lengthening.”
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“My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.”
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“Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.28, Courier Corporation
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“Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.178, Broadview Press
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“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.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus, John Hollander (2005). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Library of America
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“Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.”
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.19, Courier Corporation
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“The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast.”
-- Emma Lazarus
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