Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious.
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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are.... When it comes, the Landscape listens— Shadows—hold their breath— When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death.
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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
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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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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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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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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
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Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul.
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Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
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Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.
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I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low
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Love - thou art Veiled - A few - behold thee - Smile - and alter - and prattle - and die - Bliss - were an Oddity - without thee - Nicknamed by God - Eternity -
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The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.
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When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.
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New feet within my garden go, New fingers stir the sod; A troubadour upon the elm Betrays the solitude.New children play upon the green, New weary sleep below; And still the pensive spring returns, And still the punctual snow!
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The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!
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They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.
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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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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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Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
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Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.