Emma Lazarus quotes

Emma Lazarus was an American poet, essayist, and translator, best remembered for her poem "The New Colossus." Her work celebrated immigrant experiences and advocated for social justice, particularly for Jewish people. She remains an influential literary figure whose words are inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. Here are 20 of her 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. View quote
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I seem to have always one little window looking but into life. View quote
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Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned. View quote
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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! View quote
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No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define - what is a bird. View quote
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A lady 'twixt two knights' stone effigies, And every day in dusky glory steeps Their sculptured slumber of five centuries. View quote
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My own curiosity and interest are insatiable. View quote
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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. View quote
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Alas! we wake: one scene alone remains, - The exiles by the streams of Babylon. View quote
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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:. View quote
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The funeral and the marriage, now, alas! We know not which is sadder to recall. View quote
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No signs of life are here: the very prayers Inscribed around are in a language dead. View quote
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Lo - a black line of birds in wavering thread Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead! View quote
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Then Nature shaped a poet's heart - a lyre From out whose chords the lightest breeze that blows Drew trembling music. View quote
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I am never going to write for the sake of writing. View quote
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Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. View quote
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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. View quote
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The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch. View quote
Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: July 22, 1849
Died: November 19, 1887
Quotes count: 20
Wikipedia: Emma Lazarus

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