Emily Dickinson Quotes

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect Where it began, or if there were A day when it was not.

Emily Dickinson
Until the Desert knows That Water grows His Sands suffice But let him once suspect That Caspian Fact Sahara dies.

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

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I cannot live with You —
It would be Life —
And Life is over there —
Behind the Shelf.

Emily Dickinson
And when at Night - Our good Day done -
I guard My Master's Head -
'Tis better than the Eider Duck's
Deep Pillow - to have shared

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The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small-
Better an ignis fatuus
Than no illume at all.

Emily Dickinson
I reckon—when I count at all —
First — Poets — Then the Sun —
Then Summer—Then the Heaven of God —
And then—the List is done —
But, looking back—the First so seems To Comprehend the Whole —
The Others look a needless Show—
So I write — Poets—All —

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Though I than He - may longer live
He longer must - than I -
For I have but the power to kill,
Without - the power to die

Emily Dickinson
Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

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The power to console is not within corporeal reach — though its attempt is precious.

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I taste a liquor never brewed,
From Tankards scooped in Pearl —

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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.

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The last of Summer is Delight -
Deterred by Retrospect.
'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -
Enchantment's Syndicate.

To meet it - nameless as it is -
Without celestial Mail -
Audacious as without a Knock
To walk within the Veil.

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To fight aloud, is very brave —
But gallanter, I know
Who charge within the bosom
The Cavalry of Woe—

Emily Dickinson
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —
I keep it, staying at Home—
With a Bobolink for a Chorister —
And an Orchard, for a Dome—

Emily Dickinson
It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.

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

Emily Dickinson
What once was "Heaven" is "Zenith" now — Where I proposed to go When Time's brief masquerade was done Is mapped, and charted too.

Emily Dickinson
Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!

Emily Dickinson
God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

Emily Dickinson
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

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The thought beneath so slight a film —
Is more distinctly seen —
As laces just reveal the surge —
Or Mists—the Apennine—

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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

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

Emily Dickinson