Emma Lazarus Quotes

• Dame a tus cansados, a tus pobres, a tus masas acurrucadas que anhelan respirar libres.

  Emma Lázaro

  Tired, Civilization, Urbanization

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• Dadme a vuestros cansados, a vuestros pobres, a vuestras masas apiñadas que anhelan respirar libres, a los miserables desechos de vuestras pululantes costas, enviádmelos a mí, a los desamparados, a los tempestuosos: Alzo mi lámpara junto a la puerta dorada.

  Emma Lázaro

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

  Emma Lázaro

  Marginación

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

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• There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

  Emma Lázaro

  Lying, Past, Giving

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

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• My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

  Emma Lázaro

  Curiosity, Interest, Insatiable

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• Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

  Emma Lázaro

  Pain, Rapture

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

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

  Emma Lázaro

  Writing, Sake

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• 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 Lázaro

  Mother, New York, Sunset

  "The New Colossus" l. 1 (1883).

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• 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.

  Emma Lázaro

  Care, May, Today

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

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• Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

  Emma Lázaro

  Simple, Poetry, Impassioned

  Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.234, Broadview Press

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

  Emma Lázaro

  Life, Littles, Window

  Obituary in Century Magazine, 1887.

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• 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 Lázaro

  Passion, Evil, Age

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• Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

  Emma Lázaro

  Gira

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

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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.

  Emma Lázaro

  Men, Bird, Study

  Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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

  Emma Lázaro

  Angel, Fire, Wind

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

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

  Emma Lázaro

  Light, Psalms, Hanukkah

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

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• The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

  Emma Lázaro

  Morning, Peace, Grief

  Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• 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 Lázaro

  Space, Light, Eagles

  Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.41, Broadview Press

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• Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

  Emma Lázaro

  Language, Form, Jew

  Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• 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 Lázaro

  Spring, Twilight, Heart

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• Enciende la vela como la estrella firme
  Encendida en la frente de la tarde sobre la tierra,
  Y añade cada noche un brillo hasta que a lo lejos
  Un óctuple esplendor brille sobre tu hogar.

  Emma Lázaro

  Stars, Night, Shining

  Emma Lazarus, John Hollander (2005). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Library of America

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• Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

  Emma Lázaro

  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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