Emily Dickinson Quotes
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground.
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
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Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?
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You don't have to be a house to be haunted.
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An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.
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I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away
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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
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A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!
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AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.
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All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.
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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
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God, keep me from what they call 'households'.
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The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
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A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.
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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring ,Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again, And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now, And deck thee with holly's sheen, That, when December blights thy brow, He still may leave thy garland green.