Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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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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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
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I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way
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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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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.
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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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Beauty crowds me till I die.
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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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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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I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.
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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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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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Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare
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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
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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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Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul.
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Pain has an element of blank.
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It is finished, is never said of us.
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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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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.