Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -
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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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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.
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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
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The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.
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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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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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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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Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?
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THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
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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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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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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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It might be easier To fail with land in sight, Than gain my blue peninsula To perish of delight.
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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Beauty crowds me till I die.
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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-