Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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
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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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It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn.
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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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Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.
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I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
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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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How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!
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But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
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Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.
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The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —
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Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.
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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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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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Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
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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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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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If Aims impel these Astral OnesThe ones allowed to knowKnow that which makes them as forgotAs Dawn forgets them - now
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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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Love is like life-merely longer.
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A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.