I’ll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, “That must have been the sun!
EMILY DICKINSONI’ll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, “That must have been the sun!
EMILY DICKINSONI could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
EMILY DICKINSONThat it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
EMILY DICKINSONThey say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
EMILY DICKINSONCelebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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 things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
EMILY DICKINSONOpinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun – if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
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 DICKINSONThe poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
EMILY DICKINSONTill I loved I never lived.
EMILY DICKINSONThe sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
EMILY DICKINSONWhere thou art, that is home.
EMILY DICKINSONFriends are nations in themselves.
EMILY DICKINSONThe Soul selects her own Society.
EMILY DICKINSONThe soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
EMILY DICKINSON