Emma Lazarus famous quotes

03-28-2025

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Tired #Giving #Empathy
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, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Inspirational #Tired #Doors
I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Life #Littles #Window
The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Peace #Morning #Grief
Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Simple #Poetry
There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Lying #Past #Giving
Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Turns
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 Lazarus

#Space #Light #Eagles
Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate ...
-- Emma Lazarus

#Mother #Fate #Years
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

#Men #Bird #Study
When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Angel #Fire #Wind
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 Lazarus

#Mother #New York #Sunset
I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Writing #Sake
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.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Spring #Twilight #Heart
My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Curiosity #Interest #Insatiable
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Language #Form #Jew
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Pain #Rapture
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 Lazarus

#Stars #Night #Shining
Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
-- Emma Lazarus

#Light #Psalms #Hanukkah
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

#Passion #Evil #Age

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