Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
"Emma Lazarus" was an American poet born in New York City.
She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Emma Lazarus on Wikipedia.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.
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
His cup is gall, his meat is tears,/ His passion lasts a thousand years.
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
Still on Israel's head forlorn,/ Every nation heaps its scorn.
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