Emily Dickinson Quotes
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The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.
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Beauty crowds me till I die.
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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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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
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Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes.
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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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Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.
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A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of 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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What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.
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You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.
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Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory.
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What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star
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The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
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Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.
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Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.
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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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God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe