Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.
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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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My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.
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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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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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My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -In Corners - till a DayThe Owner passed - identified -And carried Me away -And now We roam in Sovereign Woods -And now We hunt the Doe -And every time I speak for Him -The Mountains straight reply -
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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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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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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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Truth - is as old as God-.
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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away
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But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
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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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God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.
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... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.
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To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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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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Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!
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The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until
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That no Flake of snow fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.