Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.
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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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Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
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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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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
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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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Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.
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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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I have a Bird in spring Which for myself doth sing - The spring decoys. And as the summer nears - And as the Rose appears, Robin is gone. Yet do I not repine Knowing that Bird of mine Though flown - Learneth beyond the sea Melody new for me And will return.
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Friends are nations in themselves.
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Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
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A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
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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 can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!
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Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save my Boot -- For yet to buy another Pair is possible, At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more -
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Remorse is memory awake.
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Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.
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Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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Mirth is the Mail of Anguish.
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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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By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.