Famous Quotes by Emily Dickinson
- And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home—
Than Oars divide the... More - A Bird came down the Walk—
He did not know I saw—
He bit an Angleworm in halves More - He ate and drank the precious Words,
His Spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was... More - Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life—
And Him— More - A Clock stopped—
Not the Mantel’s—
Geneva’s farthest skill
Can’t put the... More - This is the Hour of Lead—
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the... More - After great pain, a formal feeling comes— More
- After great pain, a formal feeling comes—
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs— More - A light exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period. More - It passes, and we stay:
A quality of loss
Affecting our content,
As trade had... More - Ample make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
In it wait till judgment break
Excellent... More - A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides— More - But never met this Fellow
Attended, or alone
Without a tighter breathing
And Zero at... More - Apparently with no surprise
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play More - The sun proceeds unmoved
To measure off another day
For an approving God. More - A Route of Evanescence
With a revolving Wheel— More - The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Morning’s Ride— More - A courteous, yet harrowing Grace,
As Guest, that would be gone— More - Our Summer made her light escape
Into the Beautiful. More - As imperceptibly as Grief
The Summer lapsed away— More - A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day. More - Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me— More - We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground— More - Since then—’tis Centuries—and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the... More - Elysium is as far as to
The very nearest room,
If in that room a friend... More - But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. More - “Faith” is a fine invention More
- “Faith” is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are... More - Faith—is the Pierless Bridge
Supporting what We see
Unto the Scene that We do not— More - Fame is a bee.
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing. More - Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate. More - Farther in summer than the birds,
Pathetic from the grass,
A minor nation... More - Remit as yet no grace,
No furrow on the glow,
Yet a druidic difference
Enhances... More - His Labor is a Chant—
His Idleness—a Tune—
Oh, for a Bee’s experience
Of... More - “Hope” is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul— More - Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me. More - Fearless—the cobweb swings from the ceiling—
Indolent Housewife—in Daisies—lain! More - How many times these low feet staggered—
Only the soldered mouth can tell— More - I cannot live with you. More
- You there, I here,
With just the door ajar
That oceans are,
And prayer,
And that... More - I cannot live with You—
It would be Life—
And Life is over there—
Behind the Shelf More - I could not die with you, More
- Nor could I rise with you,
Because your face
Would put out Jesus’, More - I died for Beauty—but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was... More - We talked between the Rooms—
Until the Moss had reached our lips—
And covered... More - I dreaded that first robin so,
But he is mastered now, More - They’re here, though; not a creature failed,
No blossom stayed away
In gentle deference... More - I dared not meet the daffodils, More
- I could not bear the bees should come, More
- I dwell in Possibility—
A fairer House than Prose— More - For Occupation—This—
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise— More - And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down—
And hit a World, at... More - I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, More
- A Service, like a Drum—
Kept beating—beating—till I thought
My Mind was going numb— More - If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain: More - If I could see you in a year,
I’d wind the months in balls— More - If you were coming in the Fall,
I’d brush the Summer by More - If only Centuries, delayed,
I’d count them on my Hand, More - If certain, when this life was out—
That your’s and mine, should be—
I’d toss it... More - I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— More
- —and then it was
There interposed a Fly—
With Blue—uncertain stumbling... More - There’s plunder—where?
Tankard, or spoon,
Earring, or stone,
A watch, some... More - I know some lonely houses off the road
A robber’d like the look of,—
Wooden... More - While the old couple, just astir,
Fancy the sunrise left the door ajar! More - I like a look of Agony,
Because I know it’s true— More - I like to see it lap the Miles—
And lick the Valleys up— More - And neigh like Boanerges—
Then—punctual as a Star
Stop—docile and omnipotent
At... More - I’ll tell you how the Sun rose—
A Ribbon at a time— More - But how he set—I know not— More
- A Dominie in Gray—
Put gently up the evening Bars—
And led the flock away— More - How dreary—to be—Somebody!
How public—like a frog—
To tell one’s name—the... More - I’m nobody, who are you? More
- Burglar! Banker—Father!
I am poor once more! More - I never lost as much but twice,
And that was in the sod. More - I never saw a Moor— More
- I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven—
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if... More - Yet know I how the heather looks More
- Till, in a distant town,
Towns on from mine—
I sat me down;
This was a dream. More - A snake, with mottles rare,
Surveyed my chamber floor,
In feature as the worm... More - In winter, in my room,
I came upon a worm, More - Not quite with him at home—
Secured him by a string
To something neighboring, More - That time I flew, More
- A trifle afterward More
- Until We met the Solid Town—
No One He seemed to know—
And bowing—with a Mighty... More - I started Early—Took my Dog—
And visited the Sea— More - But no Man moved Me—till the Tide
Went past my simple Shoe— More - And He—He followed—close behind— More
- This gave me that precarious Gait
Some call Experience. More - I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way More - Inebriate of Air—am I—
And Debauchee of Dew— More - And Saints—to windows run—
To see the little Tippler
Leaning against the—Sun— More - I taste a liquor never brewed—
From Tankards scooped in Pearl!— More - It dropped so low in my regard
I heard it hit the ground,
And go to pieces on the... More - Nature was in her beryl apron,
Mixing fresher air. More - It sounded as if the streets were running,
And then the streets stood still. More - I’ve seen a Dying Eye More
- And then—be soldered down
Without disclosing what it be
‘Twere blessed to have seen— More - I Years had been from Home
And now before the Door
I dared not enter, More - Then moved my Fingers off
As cautiously as Glass
And held my ears, and like a... More - I fitted to the Latch
My Hand, with trembling care More