37 Quotes by Emma Lazarus

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

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

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

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

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.

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.

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