Emily Dickinson Quotes
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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 shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
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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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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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In this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.
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His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!
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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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To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.
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A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.
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A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.
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A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.
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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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Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?
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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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November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
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A sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
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Action is redemption.
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God, keep me from what they call 'households'.
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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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Forever is composed of nows.
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Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
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How lucious lies the pea within the pod.
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?