Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies.
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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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The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.
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Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your broken Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.
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I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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It is finished, is never said of us.
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Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
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Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.
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God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
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Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare
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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.
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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
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A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find
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A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.
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I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious.
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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
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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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Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.
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God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts. Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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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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Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.