Emily Dickinson Quotes
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You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!
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To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
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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 cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!
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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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We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —
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Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace A pensive Custom it becomes Enlarging Loneliness. Antiquest felt at Noon When August burning low Arise this spectral Canticle Repose to typify Remit as yet no Grace No Furrow on the Glow Yet a Druidic Difference Enhances Nature now.
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The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -
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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
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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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Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true.
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I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.
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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
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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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You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.
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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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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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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
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Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.
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To shut your eyes is to travel.
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The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.
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By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.
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Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.