Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
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I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way
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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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It might be easier To fail with land in sight, Than gain my blue peninsula To perish of delight.
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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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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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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
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If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
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In this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.
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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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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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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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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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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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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.
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Forever is composed of Nows 'Tis not a different time Except for Infiniteness And Latitude of Home.
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You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
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It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.
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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.
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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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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.
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Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.