Emily Dickinson Quotes
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My friends are my estate.
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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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To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
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Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies.
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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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Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.
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Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?
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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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Upon the gallows hung a wretch, Too sullied for the hell To which the law entitled him. As nature’s curtain fell The one who bore him tottered in, For this was woman’s son. '’T was all I had,' she stricken gasped; Oh, what a livid boon!
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Not with a Club, the Heart is broken Nor with a Stone - A Whip so small you could not see it I've knownTo lash the Magic Creature Till it fell, Yet that Whip's Name Too noble then to tell.Magnanimous as Bird By Boy descried - Singing unto the Stone Of which it died -Shame need not crouch In such an Earth as Ours - Shame - stand erect - The Universe is yours.
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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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Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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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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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
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I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.
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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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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.
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A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -
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A Grave - is a restricted Breadth -Yet ampler than the Sun -And all the Seas He populatesAnd lands he looks uponTo Him who on its small ReposeBestows a single Friend -Circumference without Relief -Or Estimate - or End