Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSONFind ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSONThere’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
EMILY DICKINSONOpinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
EMILY DICKINSONThe brain is wider than the sky.
EMILY DICKINSONIf you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
EMILY DICKINSONWe turn not older with years but newer every day.
EMILY DICKINSONUntil you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
EMILY DICKINSONThe past is not a package one can lay away.
EMILY DICKINSONBecause I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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 DICKINSONForever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time. Let Months dissolve in further Months – And Years – exhale in Years.
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 DICKINSONGood times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.
EMILY DICKINSONA wounded deer leaps the highest.
EMILY DICKINSONWonder is not precisely knowing.
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 DICKINSON