Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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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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The blunder is to estimate,- 'Eternity is Then,' We say, as of a station. Meanwhile he is so near, He joins me in my ramble, Divides abode with me, No friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
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I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!
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Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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Where thou art, that is home.
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Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.
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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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Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
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I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
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Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies.
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Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.
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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church -I keep it, staying at Home-With a Bobolink for a Chorister -And an Orchard, for a Dome-
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.