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  • I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

    Writing   Sake  
  • When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

    Angel   Fire   Wind  
    Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.236, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).
  • Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the respect due to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded, and where it cannot be commanded, it may be enforced.

    Care   May   Today  
    Emma Lazarus (1987). “An Epistle to the Hebrews”, Jewish Historical Society of
  • 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.

    Passion   Evil   Age  
  • I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

    Life   Littles   Window  
    Obituary in Century Magazine, 1887.
  • Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

    Turns  
    Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.47, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    "The New Colossus" l. 1 (1883).
  • Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

    Pain   Rapture  
    Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.178, Broadview Press
  • 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.

    Spring   Twilight   Heart  
  • 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.

    Stars   Night   Shining  
    Emma Lazarus, John Hollander (2005). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Library of America
  • There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

    Lying   Past   Giving  
    Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.47, Broadview Press
  • Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

    Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.234, Broadview Press
  • Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

    Emma Lazarus (1987). “An Epistle to the Hebrews”, Jewish Historical Society of
  • My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

  • Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

    Light   Psalms   Hanukkah  
    Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.19, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Space   Light   Eagles  
    Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.41, Broadview Press
  • The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

    Morning   Peace   Grief  
    Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.142, Courier Corporation
  • Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

    Language   Form   Jew  
    Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.28, Courier Corporation
  • Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

    "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).
  • No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

    Men   Bird   Study  
    Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.215, Courier Corporation
  • Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

    Mother   Fate   Years  
    Emma Lazarus (2014). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.22, Courier Corporation
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