Emily Dickinson Quotes

Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.

The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.

Memory is a strange Bell — Jubilee, and Knell.

VI: A SERVICE OF SONG. Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,
With a bobolink for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.
Some keep the Sabbath in surplice;
I just wear my wings,
And instead of tolling the bell for church,
Our little sexton sings.
God preaches, — a noted clergyman, — And the sermon is never long;
So instead of getting to heaven at last, I’m going all along!

XVI. Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit, — Life!

Emerging from an Abyss and entering it again — that is Life, is it not?

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

No hay mejor fragata que un libro para llevarnos a tierras lejanas.

Who never lost, are unprepared

Narcotics cannot still the Tooth
That nibbles at the soul —

Not with a Club, the Heart is broken Nor with a Stone — A Whip so small you could not see it I've known To lash the Magic Creature Till it fell, Yet that Whip's Name Too noble then to tell. Magnanimous as Bird By Boy descried — Singing unto the Stone Of which it died — Shame need not crouch In such an Earth as Ours — Shame — stand erect — The Universe is yours.

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit,—Life!

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.