Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned..

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 ….

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain..

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..

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

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tem….

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

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

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

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable..

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 w….

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

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

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 t….

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 brigh….

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; i….

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 ….

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

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

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