Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
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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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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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Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.
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You can stay young as long as you learn.
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Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
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I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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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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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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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
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I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.
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Nothing is the force that renovates the World.
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The Truth never flaunted a sign.
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I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.
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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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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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They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."
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Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.
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This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
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Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.
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I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.
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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.