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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
Emily Dickinson
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I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me
Emily Dickinson
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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
Emily Dickinson
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Home is the definition of God.
Emily Dickinson
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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.
Emily Dickinson
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Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity.
Emily Dickinson
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Publication - is the auction of the mind.
Emily Dickinson
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The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.
Emily Dickinson
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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!
Emily Dickinson
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When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.
Emily Dickinson
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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-.
Emily Dickinson
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The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?
Emily Dickinson
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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.
Emily Dickinson
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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.
Emily Dickinson
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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.
Emily Dickinson
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Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.
Emily Dickinson
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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
Emily Dickinson
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I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.
Emily Dickinson
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Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.
Emily Dickinson
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Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
Emily Dickinson
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Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.
Emily Dickinson
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My love for those I love – not many – not very many, but don't I love them so?
Emily Dickinson
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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.
Emily Dickinson
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Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.
Emily Dickinson
