Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

"PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry."
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"PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry."
Emily Dickinson
"There is a pain – so utter – It swallows substance up – Then covers the Abyss with Trance – So Memory can step Around – across – opon it – As one within a Swoon – Goes safely – where an open eye – Would drop Him – Bone by Bone."
Emily Dickinson
"We do not play on Graves—Because there isn't Room—Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come—And put a Flower on it—And hang their faces so—We're fearing that their Hearts will drop—And crush our pretty play—And so we move as far As Enemies—away—Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—"
Emily Dickinson
"Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too,For his civility. We passed the school where children played,Their lessons scarcely done;We passed the fields of gazing grain,We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground;The roof was scarcely visible,The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity."
Emily Dickinson
"The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,--The sweeping up the heart,And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity"
Emily Dickinson
"I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die."
Emily Dickinson
"I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb,When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed"For beauty," I replied."And I for truth, the two are one;We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night,We talked between the rooms,Until the moss had reached our lips,And covered up our names."
Emily Dickinson
"Impossibility, like wine Exhilarates the man Who tastes it; Possibility Is flavoreless."
Emily Dickinson
"Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And sore must be the storm -That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm -I’ve heard it in the chillest land -And on the strangest Sea -Yet - never - in Extremity,It asked a crumb - of me."
Emily Dickinson
"A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within."
Emily Dickinson
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--"
Emily Dickinson
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
Emily Dickinson
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
Emily Dickinson
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."
Emily Dickinson
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
Emily Dickinson
"We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore."
Emily Dickinson
"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality"
Emily Dickinson
"Till I loved I never lived."
Emily Dickinson
"The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care"
Emily Dickinson
"Heart, we will forget him,You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light."
Emily Dickinson
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