Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
EMILY DICKINSONLife is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
EMILY DICKINSONWe never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
EMILY DICKINSONFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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 DICKINSONIf I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
EMILY DICKINSONSaying nothing; sometimes says the most.
EMILY DICKINSONThe possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
EMILY DICKINSONThe sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
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 DICKINSONMy friends are my estate.
EMILY DICKINSONYou left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
EMILY DICKINSONWhere thou art, that is home.
EMILY DICKINSONBecause I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
EMILY DICKINSONFortune befriends the bold.
EMILY DICKINSONTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSONLove is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
EMILY DICKINSON