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Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high.
— John Green
Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!
— Emily Dickinson
The spirit looks upon the DustThat fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song. — Emily Dickinson
A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.
— Emily Dickinson
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
— Emily Dickinson
The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
— Emily Dickinson
Then I will not repineKnowing that bird of mine
Though flown shall in a distant tree
Bright melody for me
Return. — Emily Dickinson
We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
— Emily Dickinson
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
— Emily Dickinson
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
Beauty is not caused. It is.
— Emily Dickinson
Bind me-I still can sing-Banish-my mandolin
Strikes true within-
Slay-and my Soul shall rise
Chanting to Paradise-
Still thine. — Emily Dickinson
I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.
— Emily Dickinson
Which Anguish was the utterestthen
To perish, or to live? — Emily Dickinson
I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
— Emily Dickinson
Impossibility, like wineExhilarates the man
Who tastes it; Possibility
Is flavoreless. — Emily Dickinson
If I wasn't a perfect woman, I'd bust you in the nose.
— Emily Dickinson
Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
— Emily Dickinson
It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.
— Emily Dickinson
This world is not conclusion.A species stands beyond -
Invisible, as Music -
But positive as Sound — Emily Dickinson
The days will have more hours while you are gone away.
— Emily Dickinson
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.
— Emily Dickinson
Earth is crammed with Heaven.
— Emily Dickinson
To attempt to speak of what has been, would be impossible. Abyss has no Biographer -
— Emily Dickinson
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
— Emily Dickinson
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.
— Emily Dickinson
Action is redemption.
— Emily Dickinson
How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door ...
— Emily Dickinson
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That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.
— Emily Dickinson
The second half of joy is shorter than the first
— Emily Dickinson
One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
— Emily Dickinson
These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.
— Emily Dickinson
Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?
— Emily Dickinson
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[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
— Emily Dickinson
Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.
— Emily Dickinson
You can stay young as long as you learn.
— Emily Dickinson
But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us?
— Emily Dickinson
The past is not a package one can lay away.
— Emily Dickinson
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
— Emily Dickinson
I am very busy picking up stems and stamens as the hollyhocks leave their clothes around.
— Emily Dickinson
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
— Emily Dickinson
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
— Emily Dickinson
Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?
— Emily Dickinson
Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out
— Emily Dickinson
I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
— Emily Dickinson
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.
— Emily Dickinson
The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out- — Emily Dickinson
Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
— 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
Perception of an object costsPrecise the Object's loss - — Emily Dickinson
We never know we go, - when we are goingWe jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more. — Emily Dickinson
And through a Riddle, at the last--Sagacity, must go-- — Emily Dickinson
The hearts that never lean must fall.
— Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a book.
— Emily Dickinson
Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .
— 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
Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.
— Emily Dickinson
We all have moments with the dust, but the dew is given.
— Emily Dickinson
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
— Emily Dickinson
It is finished, is never said of us
— Emily Dickinson
Home is so far from home.
— Emily Dickinson
Love is like life-merely longer.
— Emily Dickinson
Bring me the sunset in a cup.
— Emily Dickinson
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
— Emily Dickinson
Those who have not found the heaven below,will fail of it above. — Emily Dickinson
Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.
— Emily Dickinson
Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.
— Emily Dickinson
But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory's fog is rising.
— Emily Dickinson
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
— Emily Dickinson
Other Courtesies have been -Other Courtesy may be -
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry. — Emily Dickinson
Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.
— Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
— Emily Dickinson
Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
— Emily Dickinson
Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.
— Emily Dickinson
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson
The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
— Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee.It has a song -
It has a sting -
Ah, too, it has a wing. — Emily Dickinson
Love is Immortality.
— Emily Dickinson
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
— Emily Dickinson
I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.
— Emily Dickinson
To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom, The cavalry of woe.
— Emily Dickinson
That it will never come againIs what makes life so sweet. — Emily Dickinson
I see thee better in the darkI do not need a light. — Emily Dickinson
I practice Dying--every night--But have not learned to, still--
Though Talented--by Mortal bones--
For such a common Skill. — Alan W. Powers
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
— Sally Mann
What need of Day - To Those whose Dark - hath so - surpassing Sun -
It deem it be - Continually -
At the Meridian? — Emily Dickinson
What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.
— Harold Bloom
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -
— Emily Dickinson
The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.
— Emily Dickinson
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
— Emily Dickinson
The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
— Emily Dickinson