The Mind lives on the Heart
Like any Parasite --
If that is full of Meat
The Mind is fat.
The Mind lives on the Heart
Like any Parasite --
If that is full of Meat
The Mind is fat.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
A Deed knocks first at Thought And then it knocks at Will That is the manufacturing spot.
A little bread -- a crust -- a crumb --
A little trust -- a demijohn --
Can keep the soul alive --
Not portly, mind!
Heaven is so far of the Mind That were the Mind dissolved The Site of it by Architect Could not again be proved
Best Things dwell out of Sight
The Pearl -- the Just -- Our Thought.
The brain is wider than the sky.
With inference appalling
By Childhood fortified
We thought, at least they are no worse
Than they have been described.
The Capsule of the Wind
The Capsule of the Mind
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Therein thyself shalt find
The "Undiscovered Continent" --
No Settler had the Mind.
Preface to Emily Dickinson's Poems. by Thomas W. Higginson (18231911) US clergyman, author When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.
From the belief that Somewhere --
Within the Clutch of Thought --
There dwells one other Creature
Of Heavenly Love -- forgot --
One need not be a chamber to be haunted One need not be a house The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
Knows the Adder Tongue his coming
And presents her Spot --
Stands the Sun so close and mighty
That our Minds are hot.
The brain is wider than the sky For put them side by side The one the other will contain with ease And you beside.
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