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Famous Emma Lazarus Quotes
Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings
Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
“I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.”
Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
“Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.”
Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings
“There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.”
Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings
“Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.”
Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings
Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings
“Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...”
Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations
Source: An Epistle to the Hebrews
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.”
Source: An Epistle to the Hebrews
“Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.”
Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations
Source: Selected poems
“Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.”
Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings
“Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.”
Source: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic