Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Hope is a thing with feathers.
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Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.
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It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.
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Truth - is as old as God-.
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My business is circumference.
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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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Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.
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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.
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The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
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Publication - is the auction of the mind.
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Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
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She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
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Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.
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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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Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast; Grant, God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest.Please God, might I behold him In epauletted white, I should not fear the foe then, I should not fear the fight.
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The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.
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Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
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If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
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Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?
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A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
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The hearts that never lean must fall.
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Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes.
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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.