37 Quotes by Emma Lazarus

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.

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.

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.

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.

Life’s sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

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

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

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

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