Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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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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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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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
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She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.
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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?
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Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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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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A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.
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The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.
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He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.
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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.
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Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God’s residence is next to mine, His furniture is love.
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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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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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You don't have to be a house to be haunted.
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Love is done when Loves begun, Sages say, But have Sages known?
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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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I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.