I 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 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 DICKINSONA wounded deer leaps the highest.
EMILY DICKINSONOld age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
EMILY DICKINSONThey say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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 am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
EMILY DICKINSONBut a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
EMILY DICKINSONThe soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
EMILY DICKINSONHope never stops at all.
EMILY DICKINSONBring me the sunset in a cup.
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 DICKINSONThe past is not a package one can lay away.
EMILY DICKINSONWonder is not precisely knowing.
EMILY DICKINSONFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSONBecause I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
EMILY DICKINSONThe things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
EMILY DICKINSON