Emily Dickinson Quotes on Heaven (21 Quotes)

The Definition of Beauty is
That Definition is none --
Of Heaven, easing Analysis,
Since Heaven and He are one.

I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.

Than Heaven more remote,
For Heaven is the root,
But these the flitted seed.

Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. Gods residence is next to mine His furniture is love.

Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

Whydo they shut Me out of Heaven Did I singtoo loud ButI can say a little Minor Timid as a Bird

The most important population
Unnoticed dwell,
They have a heaven each instant
Not any hell.

How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain But why compare I'm wife stop there.

I reason, that in Heaven --
Somehow, it will be even --
Some new Equation, given --
But, what of that?

That Bells should ring till all should know
A Soul had gone to Heaven
Would seem to me the more the way
A Good News should be given.

Heaven is so far of the Mind That were the Mind dissolved The Site of it by Architect Could not again be proved

How far is it to Heaven?

My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June and in it are my friends every one of them.

Lest this be Heaven indeed
An Obstacle is given
That always gauges a Degree
Between Ourself and Heaven.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Heaven --
Or only Heaven to come
With that old Codicil of Doubt?

So give me back to Death --
The Death I never feared
Except that it deprived of thee --
And now, by Life deprived,
In my own Grave I breathe
And estimate its size --
Its size is all that Hell can guess --
And all that Heaven was --

I told myself, "Take Courage, Friend --
That -- was a former time --
But we might learn to like the Heaven,
As well as our Old Home!

So much of Heaven has gone from Earth
That there must be a Heaven
If only to enclose the Saints
To Affidavit given.

Why -- do they shut Me out of Heaven?

Except to Heaven, she is nought.