Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
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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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Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?
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Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.
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Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
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I have an appetite for silence.
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God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.
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How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?
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The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.
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Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.
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The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.
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I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.
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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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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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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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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
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Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
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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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Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer
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Spring is the Period Express from God.
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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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The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.