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708b9be Hope is the thing with feather hope inspirational feathers souls Emily Dickinson
98e3143 Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul hope inspirational souls Emily Dickinson
b8bd680 Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. Emily Dickinson
11ecd75 If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? power-of-words Emily Dickinson
38fe0cf I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there 's a pair of us--don't tell! They 'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! poetry Emily Dickinson
148db4a Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. nature haunted house Emily Dickinson
bddd459 To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. inspirational Emily Dickinson
06ca250 A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. words Emily Dickinson
55f003e The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. writing inspirational Emily Dickinson
dad38ca 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, poems poetry Emily Dickinson
f06ae0e Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me - Emily Dickinson
d39bc9c Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! Emily Dickinson
3fea6f5 There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry - This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll - How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul. words literature reading poetry Emily Dickinson
8444e00 One need not be a chamber to be haunted. poetry sadness Emily Dickinson
7dc4885 The lovely flowers embarrass me. Emily Dickinson
c3eabee 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 chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. poetry Emily Dickinson
405d62e A great hope fell Emily Dickinson
19eb5ac We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies. inspirational Emily Dickinson
b65d474 That I shall love always, I argue thee love Emily Dickinson
cda0bd3 If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin pain heartbreak robin Emily Dickinson
1a1d8a7 I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes; I wonder if It weighs like Mine, Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long, Or did it just begin? I could not tell the Date of Mine, It feels so old a pain. I wonder if it hurts to live, And if They have to try, And whether, could They choose between, It would not be, to die. I note that Some -- gone patient long -- At length, renew their smile. An imitation of .. Emily Dickinson
b9f473f An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, Emily Dickinson
e649efb Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. Emily Dickinson
3d8c645 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." poetry death truth keats emily dickinson
7b3a467 If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by, With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls, And put them each in separate drawers, Until their time befalls. Emily Dickinson
3ec1986 The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring. Emily Dickinson
687d3f5 She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side. death emily-dickinson rebirth Emily Dickinson
dc512b2 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant- inspirational Emily Dickinson
f016c49 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 Emily Dickinson
64d5428 Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above. Emily Dickinson
370af40 Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain -- madness sanity poetry Emily Dickinson
4772f3f To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. happiness clover lightheartedness revery prairie Emily Dickinson
7cc533f 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 words literature poetry Emily Dickinson
cc54f4e I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through - And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum - Kept beating - beating - till I thought My Mind was going numb - And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul With those same Boots of Lead, again, Then Space - began to toll, As all the Heavens were a Bell, And Being, but an Ear, And I, and.. pain depression elegy emily-dickinson funeral Emily Dickinson
4c0c61d Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. fed starving dead fat Emily Dickinson
6157be5 There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, Emily Dickinson
7ef8b77 To be alive--is Power. Emily Dickinson
6995429 in this short life that only lasts ah hour emily dickinson
bb4aee4 I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Emily Dickinson
56ac632 Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, religion science Emily Dickinson
1c37ea6 I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all! Emily Dickinson
e8304ee I felt a Cleaving in my Mind-- As if my Brain had split-- I tried to match it--Seam by Seam-- But could not make it fit. poetry Emily Dickinson
4c75ceb I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf Emily Dickinson
35993a0 To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand. Emily Dickinson
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