Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I took one Draught of Life -I'll tell you what I paid -Precisely an existence -The market price, they said.
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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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Spring is the Period Express from God.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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And you dropt, lost, When something broke-- And let you from a Dream
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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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My love for those I love – not many – not very many, but don't I love them so?
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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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Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.
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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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The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.
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Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes.
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I'll tell you how the Sun rose.
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Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-
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The hearts that never lean must fall.
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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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Truth - is as old as God-.
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God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.
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Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.
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I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!
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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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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?
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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone
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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.