Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.
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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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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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There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.
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Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
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I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.
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Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
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The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain
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Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.
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Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
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I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.