The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
EMILY DICKINSONThe things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
EMILY DICKINSONSunrise: day’s great progenitor.
EMILY DICKINSONI tasted life.
EMILY DICKINSONBehavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
EMILY DICKINSONI am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
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 DICKINSONCommon sense is almost as omniscient as God.
EMILY DICKINSONLife is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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 DICKINSONFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSONYou left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
EMILY DICKINSONBeauty is not caused. It is.
EMILY DICKINSONCelebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSONThe soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
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 DICKINSONOne step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
EMILY DICKINSON