Creative Quotations from Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886) born on Dec 10

US poet. She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.

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Nature, like us is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.

Surgeons must be very careful,
When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions,
Stirs the Culprit --Life!

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson," no. 1075, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
R:	1870, in "The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson," ed. Martha Dickinson Bianchi, 1924.
A:	1868; "The Poems of Emily Dickinson," 1955.
N:	"The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson," no. 108, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
K:	"The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson," no. 67, st. 1, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.