Emily Dickinson Quotes
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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.
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I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
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It might be easier To fail with land in sight, Than gain my blue peninsula To perish of delight.
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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.
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I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.
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Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare
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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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The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.
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A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find
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To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand.
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Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your broken Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.
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Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell
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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
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Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit,-Life!
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.
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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone
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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
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I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.