Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.
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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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I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.
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A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
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Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.
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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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You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.
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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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I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
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Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!
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Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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It is easy to work when the soul is at play.
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Bring me the sunset in a cup.
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We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.
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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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Mirth is the Mail of Anguish.
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I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior--for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors--the fairest For Occupation--This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise
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Nothing is the force that renovates the World.
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The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.