Emily Dickinson Quotes
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To shut your eyes is to travel.
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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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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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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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I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.
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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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A Toad, can die of Light - Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men
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The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.
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Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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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.
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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
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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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Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
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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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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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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
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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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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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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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No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -
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That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
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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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You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.