Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
EMILY DICKINSONOpinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
EMILY DICKINSONForever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
EMILY DICKINSONCelebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSONIt is easy to work when the soul is at play.
EMILY DICKINSONTo 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 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 DICKINSONPHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that’s the genius behind poetry.
EMILY DICKINSONI tasted life.
EMILY DICKINSONMy friends are my estate.
EMILY DICKINSONThere’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
EMILY DICKINSONThat it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
EMILY DICKINSONI have an appetite for silence.
EMILY DICKINSONI could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
EMILY DICKINSONThe possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
EMILY DICKINSONBut a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
EMILY DICKINSONThey might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
EMILY DICKINSON