We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
EMILY DICKINSONWe both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
EMILY DICKINSONFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSONThe brain is wider than the sky.
EMILY DICKINSONThe soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
EMILY DICKINSONTill I loved I never lived.
EMILY DICKINSONBehavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
EMILY DICKINSONWhenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSONBut a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
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 DICKINSONUnable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSONTo ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
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 DICKINSONThat love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
EMILY DICKINSONBeauty is not caused. It is.
EMILY DICKINSONThe soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
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 DICKINSON