Emily Dickinson Quotes - Page 15

Quotes about:

• He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow by fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten Your brain to bubble cool,- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Blow, Player, Keys

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

• When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Heart, Different

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Lovers, Criteria

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.369, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

• There is a solitude of space.
  A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Space, Sea, Soul

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1977, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Justice, Bird, Crumbs

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.110, First Avenue Editions

  7 Copy quote

• A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

  Emily Dickinson

  Butterfly, Sky, Majesty

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.494, Harvard University Press

  5 Copy quote

• A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Spring, Rocks

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

  7 Copy quote

• For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Joy, Ecstatic Love

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.98, First Avenue Editions

  7 Copy quote

• God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

  Emily Dickinson

  Blessing, Long, Atheism

  4 Copy quote

• At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Jesus, Air, Atheism

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• I tasted - careless - then -
  I did not know the Wine
  Came once a World - Did you?
  Oh, had you told me so -
  This Thirst would blister - easier - now

  Emily Dickinson

  Wine, World, Easier

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.133, Harvard University Press

  7 Copy quote

• A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

  Emily Dickinson

  Friends, Mind, Temperature

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.112, Harvard University Press

  4 Copy quote

• I died for Beauty--but was scarce
  Adjusted in the Tomb
  When One who died for Truth, was lain
  In an adjoining Room

  Emily Dickinson

  Beauty, Death, Truth

  "I died for beauty but was scarce" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

  4 Copy quote

• Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

  Emily Dickinson

  Home, Literature, Domes

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

  66 Copy quote

• Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Father, Dust, Hands

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.561, Harvard University Press

  12 Copy quote

• Two Seasons, it is said, exist-
  The Summer of the Just,
  And this of Ours, diversified
  With Prospect, and with Frost-
  
  May not our Second with its First
  So infinite compare
  That We but recollect the one
  The other to prefer?

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, June, Two

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.767, Harvard University Press

  4 Copy quote

• You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Letting Go, Trying

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.877, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

  Emily Dickinson

  Arrows, Atheism, Strikes

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.602, Harvard University Press

  4 Copy quote

• His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.

  Emily Dickinson

  Long, Cheeks, Biographers

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1740, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

  Emily Dickinson

  Loss, Tears

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.294, Harvard University Press

  5 Copy quote

• We trust in plumed procession
  For such the angels go
  Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.

  Emily Dickinson

  Angel, Feet, Snow

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.47, Harvard University Press

  6 Copy quote

• As Summer into Autumn slips
  And yet we sooner say
  "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest
  We turn the sun away,
  
  And almost count it an Affront
  The presence to concede
  Of one however lovely, not
  The one that we have loved -
  
  So we evade the charge of Years
  On one attempting shy
  The Circumvention of the Shaft
  Of Life's Declivity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Autumn, Years

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.285, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Eye, Bridges, Feet

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1189, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Tree, Hemlock

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.47, Harvard University Press

  7 Copy quote

• Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And here, my dear friend, is the glory.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mother, Children, World

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

Page 15 of 21

First

← Prev

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin