I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
EMILY DICKINSONI am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
EMILY DICKINSONFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSONWhere thou art, that is home.
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 DICKINSONYou don’t have to be a house to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSONPeople need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
EMILY DICKINSONIf you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
EMILY DICKINSONWonder is not precisely knowing.
EMILY DICKINSONHold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
EMILY DICKINSONI could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
EMILY DICKINSONCommon sense is almost as omniscient as God.
EMILY DICKINSONLove is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
EMILY DICKINSONThe only Commandment I ever obeyed – ‘Consider the Lilies.
EMILY DICKINSONHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
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 DICKINSONIf I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSON