Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) 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.
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“There is a place prepared in hell,
For to sit upon a serpent’s knee.’”
—Unknown. Dives and Lazarus (l. 39–40)