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

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

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

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Letter, I885; in "Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.
R:	"The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson," no. 683, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
A:	Letter, 1867; in "Letters of Emily Dickinson," ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.
N:	Letter, 1878; in "Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.
K:	"Poems, Second Series," 1891.