Emily Dickinson Quotes on Soul (23 Quotes)


    The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

    Shy as the Wind of his Chambers
    Swift as a Freshet's Tongue
    So of the Flower of the Soul
    Its process is unknown.

    A better Coat if he possessed
    Would help him to conceal,
    Not subjugate, the Mutineer
    Whose title is "the Soul.

    A little bread -- a crust -- a crumb --
    A little trust -- a demijohn --
    Can keep the soul alive --
    Not portly, mind!

    My soul, to find them, come,
    They cannot call, they're dumb,
    Nor prove, nor woo,
    But that they have abode
    Is absolute as God,
    And instant, too.


    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.

    Garrisoned no Soul can be
    In the Front of Trouble --
    Love is one, not aggregate --
    Nor is Dying double --

    The Subterranean Freight
    The Cellars of the Soul --
    Thank God the loudest Place he made
    Is license to be still.

    Motioned itself to drill
    Loaded and Levelled
    And let His Flesh
    Centuries from His soul.



    Of Consciousness, her awful Mate
    The Soul cannot be rid --
    As easy the secreting her
    Behind the Eyes of God.

    Angel's breathless ballot
    Lingers to record thee --
    Imps in eager Caucus
    Raffle for my Soul!

    Slay -- and my Soul shall rise
    Chanting to Paradise --
    Still thine.

    Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

    And the world -- if the world be looking on --
    Will see how far from home
    It is possible for sense to live
    The soul there -- all the time.


    It was a Grave, yet bore no Stone
    Enclosed 'twas not of Rail
    A Consciousness its Acre, and
    It held a Human Soul.

    What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot The opening of a Door.

    Adventure most unto itself
    The Soul condemned to be --
    Attended by a single Hound
    Its own identity.

    Garland for Queens, may be --
    Laurels -- for rare degree
    Of soul or sword.

    Could live -- did live --
    Could die -- did die --
    Could smile upon the whole
    Through faith in one he met not,
    To introduce his soul.

    At leisure is the Soul
    That gets a Staggering Blow --
    The Width of Life -- before it spreads
    Without a thing to do --


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