Emily Dickinson Quotes
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To die before one fears to die may be a boon.
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Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.
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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone
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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 took one Draught of Life -I'll tell you what I paid -Precisely an existence -The market price, they said.
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Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes.
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As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity.
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A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away
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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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Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.
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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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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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The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.
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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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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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Truth - is as old as God-.
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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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 travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.
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Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!
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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
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The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.
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I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.