Emily Dickinson Quotes

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The reticent volcano keeps
His never slumbering plan -
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man.

Emily Dickinson
The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.

Emily Dickinson
The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.

Emily Dickinson
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.

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I know some lonely houses off the road
A robber'd like the look of,--
Wooden barred,
And windows hanging low

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The Chemical conviction That Nought be lost Enable in Disaster My fractured Trust —

Emily Dickinson
I... am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.

Emily Dickinson
I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.

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Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

Emily Dickinson
Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

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The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

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I have a Bird in spring
Which for myself doth sing -
The spring decoys.
And as the summer nears -
And as the Rose appears,
Robin is gone.
Yet do I not repine
Knowing that Bird of mine
Though flown -
Learneth beyond the sea
Melody new for me
And will return.

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The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

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Other Courtesies have been -
Other Courtesy may be -
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry.

Emily Dickinson
When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.

Emily Dickinson
If I shouldn't be alive
When the Robins come,
Give the one in Red Cravat,
A Memorial crumb.

Emily Dickinson
I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

Emily Dickinson
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

Emily Dickinson
Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content.

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Follow wise Orion Till you waste your eye — Dazzlingly decamping He is just as high —

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The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.

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God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

Emily Dickinson
I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

Emily Dickinson
I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you don't know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.

Emily Dickinson
It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

Emily Dickinson
I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

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Not if Their Party were waiting,
Not if to talk with Me
Were to Them now, Homesickness
After Eternity.

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Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode with me? No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.

Emily Dickinson
After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place,
Agony, that enacted there,
Motionless as peace.

Emily Dickinson