Emily Dickinson Quotes (543 Quotes)



    A Rat surrendered here
    A brief career of Cheer
    And Fraud and Fear.

    'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie That Commerce will continue And Trades as briskly fly.


    I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.


    A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

    The Suburbs of a Secret
    A Strategist should keep,
    Better than on a Dream intrude
    To scrutinize the Sleep.

    Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

    At Half past Seven, Element
    Nor Implement, be seen --
    And Place was where the Presence was
    Circumference between.

    Put down the apple, Adam,
    And come away with me,
    So shalt thou have a pippin
    From off my father's tree!


    Of all we are allowed to hope
    But Affidavit stands
    That this was due where most we fear
    Be unexpected Friends.


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


    Said Passion, through contracting Breaths
    "A Thousand Times Thee Nay.

    Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

    Hope it strange invention A Patent of the Heart In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.

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


    Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

    Inebriate of Air am I And Debauchee of Dew Reeling through endless summer days From inns of Molten Blue.

    His small Umbrella quaintly halved
    Describing in the Air
    An Arc alike inscrutable
    Elate Philosopher.

    Fitter Feet -- of Her before us --
    Than whatever Brow
    Art of Snow -- or Trick of Lily
    Possibly bestow

    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.

    As far as Death this way --
    Of River or of Ridge beyond
    Was no discovery.

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

    To possess, is past the instant
    We achieve the Joy --
    Immortality contented
    Were Anomaly.


    Her face was in a bed of hair,
    Like flowers in a plot --
    Her hand was whiter than the sperm
    That feeds the sacred light.





    Lest Love should value less
    What Loss would value more
    Had it the stricken privilege,
    It cherishes before.

    By Chivalries as tiny,
    A Blossom, or a Book,
    The seeds of smiles are planted --
    Which blossom in the dark.

    Earth at the best
    Is but a scanty Toy --
    Bought, carried Home
    To Immortality.

    Alien, though adjoining
    As a Foreign Race --
    Traversed she though pausing
    Latitudeless Place.

    Gratitude -- is not the mention
    Of a Tenderness,
    But its still appreciation
    Out of Plumb of Speech.


    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.


    And from a Settlement
    A Capital has grown
    Distinguished for the gravity
    Of every Citizen.

    No eye hath seen and lived
    We ignorant must be --
    We only know what time of Year
    We took the Mystery.

    To imitate these Neighbors fleet
    In awe and innocence, were meet.


    This is the Hour of Lead Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow First Chill then Stupor then the letting go .


    Given in Marriage unto Thee
    Oh thou Celestial Host --
    Bride of the Father and the Son
    Bride of the Holy Ghost.

    Reserving that but just to prove
    Another Date of Thee --
    Oh God of Width, do not for us
    Curtail Eternity!


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