Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

"This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me"
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"This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me"
Emily Dickinson
"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."
Emily Dickinson
"We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies. The heroism we recite Would be a daily thing,Did not ourselves the cubits warp For fear to be a king."
Emily Dickinson
"A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore;A privilege, I think,His venerable hand to take,And warming in our own,A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect,His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind,The literature of old..."
Emily Dickinson
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
Emily Dickinson
"Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sun In Human Nature's West -"
Emily Dickinson
"THERE is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away..."
Emily Dickinson
"There is no Frigate like a book."
Emily Dickinson
"The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind - Emily Dickinson"
Emily Dickinson
"Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not—Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as bold As it were rocked in Steel With Arms of Steel at either side—It joins—behind the Veil To what, could We presume The Bridge would cease to be To Our far, vacillating Feet A first Necessity."
Emily Dickinson
"Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudent In an emergency."
Emily Dickinson
"Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed."
Emily Dickinson
"Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye..."
Emily Dickinson
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
Emily Dickinson
"Love is like the wild rose-briar;Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,But which will bloom most constantly?The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,Its summer blossoms scent the air;Yet wait till winter comes again,And who will call the wild-briar fair?Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now,And deck thee with holly's sheen,That, when December blights thy brow,He still may leave thy garland green."
Emily Dickinson
"She dealt her pretty words like Blades --How glittering they shone --And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone --She never deemed -- she hurt --That -- is not Steel's Affair --A vulgar grimace in the Flesh --How ill the Creatures bear --To Ache is human -- not polite --The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom --Just locking up -- to Die."
Emily Dickinson
"There's a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes."
Emily Dickinson
"A wounded dear leaps the highest"
Emily Dickinson
"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!"
Emily Dickinson
"How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity."
Emily Dickinson
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