Where thou art, that is home.
EMILY DICKINSONWhere thou art, that is home.
EMILY DICKINSONTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSONJudge tenderly of me.
EMILY DICKINSONWe meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
EMILY DICKINSONOpinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
EMILY DICKINSONDoes not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.
EMILY DICKINSONLife is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
EMILY DICKINSONPHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONWonder is not precisely knowing.
EMILY DICKINSONThe Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care.
EMILY DICKINSONI 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 DICKINSONOpen your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still…nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
EMILY DICKINSONThe only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
EMILY DICKINSONBeauty is not caused. It is.
EMILY DICKINSONDogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
EMILY DICKINSONIt is easy to work when the soul is at play.
EMILY DICKINSON