Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Who has not found the Heaven - below -Will fail of it above -
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Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.
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Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -
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To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
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To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.
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A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!
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Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock -
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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
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I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.
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Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
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Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; Demur,-you ’re straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.