Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for … - Emily Dickinson

" "
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

2 sources found for this quote. Sign up to see where each one appeared

English

Collect this quote

About Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Full Quote All quotes from Emily Dickinson Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Emily Dickinson:

Lord Byron Edna St. Vincent Millay Alfred Tennyson John Keats Robert Browning

Additional quotes by Emily Dickinson

Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!

So we must meet apart — You there — I — here
With just the Door ajar
That Oceans are — and Prayer — And that White Sustenance — Despair — — Emily Dickinson, from “I Cannot Live with You,” The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little,Brown and Company, 1960)

And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's privilege?

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. - Emily Dickinson

About Emily Dickinson

Also Known As

Additional quotes by Emily Dickinson