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.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

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

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

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

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.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.