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