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Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

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

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

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

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

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

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

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

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

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

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

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

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

and woman must wait and weep.

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

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