Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson: To see the...

Emily Dickinson: To see the...

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie --
True Poems flee --


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Emily Dickinson: Prayer is the...

Emily Dickinson: Prayer is the...

Prayer is the little implement
Through which men reach
Where presence - is denied...

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Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

Source: Letter, 1879; in Letters...

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Emily Dickinson: No Life can...

Emily Dickinson: No Life can...

No Life can pompless pass away --
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here...

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Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Source: Attributed last words; in A Certain World,...

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Emily Dickinson: I hope you...

Emily Dickinson: I hope you...

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

Source:...

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Emily Dickinson: The Soul unto...

Emily Dickinson: The Soul unto...

The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend --
Or the most agonizing Spy --
An Enemy --could send...

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Emily Dickinson: A letter always...

Emily Dickinson: A letter always...

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

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Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Source: Letter, 1878; in Letters of Emily...

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Emily Dickinson: Tis sweet to...

Emily Dickinson: Tis sweet to...

Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand
When we with Daisies lie --
That Commerce will continue --
And...

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Emily Dickinson: They say God...

Emily Dickinson: They say God...

They say God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

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Emily Dickinson: Dreams are the...

Emily Dickinson: Dreams are the...

Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple...

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Emily Dickinson: Hope it strange...

Emily Dickinson: Hope it strange...

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

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Emily Dickinson: Unto a broken...

Emily Dickinson: Unto a broken...

Unto a broken heart
No other one may go
Without the high prerogative
Itself hath suffered...

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Emily Dickinson: I took one...

Emily Dickinson: I took one...

I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they...

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Emily Dickinson: Some keep the...

Emily Dickinson: Some keep the...

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church --
I keep it, staying at Home --
With a Bobolink for a Chorister --
And...

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Emily Dickinson: His mind of...

Emily Dickinson: His mind of...

His mind of man, a secret makes
I meet him with a start
He carries a circumference
In which I have no...

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Emily Dickinson: We must be...

Emily Dickinson: We must be...

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Source: Letter, 1874; in...

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Emily Dickinson: I measure every...

Emily Dickinson: I measure every...

I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing Eyes --
I wonder if It weighs like Mine --
Or has an Easier...

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Emily Dickinson: This World is...

Emily Dickinson: This World is...

This World is not Conclusion.
A Sequel stands beyond--
Invisible, as Music--
But positive, as...

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