Emma Lazarus quotes

Until we are all free, we are none of us free. (Emma Lazarus)
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Emma Lazarus
I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.
Emma Lazarus
Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.
Emma Lazarus
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-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Emma Lazarus
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define - what is a bird.
Emma Lazarus
A lady 'twixt two knights' stone effigies, And every day in dusky glory steeps Their sculptured slumber of five centuries.
Emma Lazarus
My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.
Emma Lazarus
The children of the prophets of the Lord, Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate. Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state, The West refused them, and the East abhorred. No anchorage the known world could afford.
Emma Lazarus
Alas! we wake: one scene alone remains, - The exiles by the streams of Babylon.
Emma Lazarus
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 Lazarus)
Sweet empty sky of June without a stain, Faint, gray-blue dewy mists on far-off hills Warm, yellow sunlight flooding mead and plain, That each dark copse and hollow overfills:.
Emma Lazarus
The funeral and the marriage, now, alas! We know not which is sadder to recall.
Emma Lazarus
No signs of life are here: the very prayers Inscribed around are in a language dead.
Emma Lazarus
Lo - a black line of birds in wavering thread Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead!
Emma Lazarus
Then Nature shaped a poet's heart - a lyre From out whose chords the lightest breeze that blows Drew trembling music.
Emma Lazarus
I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
Emma Lazarus
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
Emma Lazarus
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.
Emma Lazarus
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
Emma Lazarus