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Dreams are the subtle Dower/ That make us rich an Hour/ Then fling us poor/ Out of the purple door.


Emily Dickinson

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HAROLD BLOOM Never endeavor to separate the poor from the rich,for they are one,they originated from the same sou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Give a poor mind $1m & service will ultimately end,but the rich knows that life is all about service...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The only difference between the rich & the poor is how they process their thinking.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily'...
JEROME CHARYN Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we a...
GEORGE SAUNDERS We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight b...
PETER S. BEAGLE Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.
GLEN COOK Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out...
AMY TAN None of us are rich. It's not like we're some upper class people coming in and helping the poor. We'...
FAITH VOID Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, acces...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING In this life let us learn to appreciate both the poor & the rich,because the poor today can become t...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.
JOHN GREEN The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will c...
EMILY DICKINSON open me carefully
EMILY DICKINSON When you come home, darling, I shant have your letters, but I shall have yourself, which is more-- o...
EMILY DICKINSON I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day ...
EMILY DICKINSON How idle then is the notion that some entertain, that the establishment of this plan of government w...
THOMAS COGSWELL UPHAM When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I d...
MALLORY ORTBERG Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses c...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
NICK HANAUER The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the p...
MARK TWAIN I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.
LUDWIG VON MISES Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us ...
TONY CAMPOLO And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine ...
BIBLE Conspiracy of the rich;The rich have all conspired to take complete control of their minds & direct ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Conspiracy of the rich:The rich have conspired to humbly serve the poor & therefore grab their meage...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Conspiracy of The Rich;The rich desire riches so they conspire to use the resources of the poor to g...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's Irony;If some dead folks can witness how their offsprings will be fighting over their estates...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF Giving alms to the rich is a luxury no beggar can afford.
MARTY RUBIN There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The fi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE They told us our loved ones would be out of the mines and brought over here so we could see them and...
ANN MERIDETH The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are...
SAADI The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are...
SA'DI You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHER When the rich make war it's the poor that die
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that l...
WILLIAM LUCE She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple ward...
EMILY DICKINSON How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has tu...
WOODY ALLEN God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they...
PAUL ZANE PILZER Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth...
TONY D'SOUZA The mindset of the poor;I need more college degrees to be able to make impact in life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Financial aid is a legacy and a justice due to the poor that our Lord Jesus Christ acquired for us. ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (EARLIER RULE 9) You wouldn't know a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord...
BLACKADDER Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I ...
SARAH ZETTEL I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.
JEFF BRIDGES A rich man plans for tomorrow ,a poor man dreams about tomorrow.
KOWSALAPATHY Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure...
RIVER PHOENIX The rich is a friend of the poor because,the poor makes him richer & the poor is also a friend & an ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE The rich are rich in beliefs,but the poor are rich with unbelief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. ...
ANNA QUINDLEN Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure...
RIVER PHOENIX We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
EMILE M. CIORAN Love can make even nice people do awful things.
JUDE DEVERAUX Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day re...
TOM HODGKINSON Current public diplomacy and foreign policy making reduces the role of American citizens to mere spe...
NANCY SNOW The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreason...
US CONSTITUTION No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor ...
US CONSTITUTION Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...
US CONSTITUTION A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people t...
US CONSTITUTION You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's p...
MAURICE SENDAK The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have th...
SAADI The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have...
SAADI I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read ...
MAURICE SENDAK Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
SISTER CORITA KENT Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
SISTER CORITA KENT I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about...
SHANE CLAIBORNE Emily has looked very good for us early in the season.
DAVE FEDERICO The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the r...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN The Rich beg,but they beg money from investors to finance dreams,but the poor beg just to survive.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.
STEVE HANKE Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE The mindset of the rich;The rich worship one important word called belief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's irony;Behind the razmattaz & sparkleness we see in the rich are some shady & unclean past tha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich trudge along in the uncertain world of entrepreneurship with the hope that belief will resc...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Opportunity maketh the rich.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich are good actors,for they mostly act rich,before they ever become rich.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich have one thing in common,they can afford almost anything money can buy,but what they don't ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich are independent,because they believe & keep believing that they can live independently.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Searching for a persistent & confident person in life? Look no further,just look the way of the rich...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's three events that also pains the rich; exercise, fasting & child birth.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The mindset of the rich; I am in charge hence no external factor can control my destiny.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's Irony;The rich that despise the poor are ignorant folks,for they have forgotten that the bulk...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's Irony;The advantage of having rich people before you is that you have the opportunity of read...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich have no knowledge of where the shoe pinches the poor,unless the rich had once passed throug...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich that are rejoicing having conquered life,should beware & rethink,for no man can conquer dea...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Emulate the rich,for they don't focus on the poverty in the land,but on the prosperity that is meant...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There will always be the rich in our midst because,this world is filled with rich resources which th...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To the rich investment means "my money is departing for a while & will be back multiplied.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich love the word opportunity,even though always dressed in ugly robes,because opportunity make...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rich that hesitates to help the poor is nothing but a fool,because the funds he uses to finance ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

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EMILY DICKINSON I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his brie...
EMILY DICKINSON Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
EMILY DICKINSON Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves a...
EMILY DICKINSON I'm nobody, who are you?
EMILY DICKINSON A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSON I dwell in possibility.
EMILY DICKINSON A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend...
EMILY DICKINSON Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain...
EMILY DICKINSON How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
EMILY DICKINSON Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call...
EMILY DICKINSON Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emerg...
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON Forever is composed of nows.
EMILY DICKINSON I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel...
EMILY DICKINSON Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the ...
EMILY DICKINSON This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
EMILY DICKINSON The Brain is wider than the sky-.
EMILY DICKINSON Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
EMILY DICKINSON Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON A wounded deer leaps the highest.
EMILY DICKINSON The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
EMILY DICKINSON Beauty is not caused. It is.
EMILY DICKINSON Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
EMILY DICKINSON If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry....
EMILY DICKINSON Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
EMILY DICKINSON Dying is a wild night and a new road.
EMILY DICKINSON Let us go in; the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just...
EMILY DICKINSON Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
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EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON Where thou art, that is home.
EMILY DICKINSON They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
EMILY DICKINSON His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have n...
EMILY DICKINSON To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe...
EMILY DICKINSON How the old mountains drip with sunset,
And the brake of dun!
How the hemlocks are tipped in t...
EMILY DICKINSON I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Thro...
EMILY DICKINSON This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -...
EMILY DICKINSON To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
EMILY DICKINSON Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
EMILY DICKINSON His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon...
EMILY DICKINSON Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions, stirs ...
EMILY DICKINSON Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain ...
EMILY DICKINSON Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's...
EMILY DICKINSON Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not a...
EMILY DICKINSON A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal frien...
EMILY DICKINSON The fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventu...
EMILY DICKINSON I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixi...
EMILY DICKINSON I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
EMILY DICKINSON There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetr...
EMILY DICKINSON He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease on Life the Achin...
EMILY DICKINSON His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of ...
EMILY DICKINSON Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From ...
EMILY DICKINSON God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven...
EMILY DICKINSON And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours ...
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EMILY DICKINSON "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of C...
EMILY DICKINSON If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
EMILY DICKINSON The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- ...
EMILY DICKINSON The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes ...
EMILY DICKINSON Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive...
EMILY DICKINSON Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Ti...
EMILY DICKINSON The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocrac...
EMILY DICKINSON Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear...
EMILY DICKINSON Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
EMILY DICKINSON Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON For Love is Immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gav...
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev...
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EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors su...
EMILY DICKINSON I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSON Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
EMILY DICKINSON Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
EMILY DICKINSON To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone...
EMILY DICKINSON Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
EMILY DICKINSON The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
EMILY DICKINSON I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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EMILY DICKINSON Fortune befriends the bold.
EMILY DICKINSON God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the he...
EMILY DICKINSON If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the...
EMILY DICKINSON Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
EMILY DICKINSON Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
EMILY DICKINSON I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17t...
EMILY DICKINSON The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
EMILY DICKINSON I dwell in possibility…
EMILY DICKINSON A power of Butterfly must be -
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And ea...
EMILY DICKINSON I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life th...
EMILY DICKINSON Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded a...
EMILY DICKINSON It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
EMILY DICKINSON I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at i...
EMILY DICKINSON There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tun...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the ac...
EMILY DICKINSON Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
EMILY DICKINSON My life closed twice before its' close-
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A th...
EMILY DICKINSON I dwell in possibility...
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
EMILY DICKINSON Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eye...
EMILY DICKINSON A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
EMILY DICKINSON A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
EMILY DICKINSON I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an...
EMILY DICKINSON Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
EMILY DICKINSON Ample make this bed. / Make this bed with awe; / In it wait till judgement break / Excellent and fai...
EMILY DICKINSON Is wholesome even for the King.
EMILY DICKINSON There came a wind like a bugle; / It quivered through the grass.
EMILY DICKINSON I cannot live with You --/ It would be Life --/ And Life is over there --/ Behind the Shelf.
EMILY DICKINSON Water is taught by thirst.
EMILY DICKINSON To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
EMILY DICKINSON Superiority to fateIs difficult to learn.'Tis not conferred by anyBut possible to earn.
EMILY DICKINSON My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in J...
EMILY DICKINSON God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.
EMILY DICKINSON Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - I keep it, staying at Home - With a bobolink for a Chorister...
EMILY DICKINSON Pain - has an Element of Blank -/ It cannot recollect/ When it begun - or if there were/ A time when...
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers
EMILY DICKINSON The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
EMILY DICKINSON What fortitude the Soul contains, / That it can so endure / The accent of a coming Foot-- / The open...
EMILY DICKINSON Heaven is what I cannot reach!
EMILY DICKINSON AFRAID? Of whom am I afraid? Not death; for who is he? The porter of my father’s lodge As much aba...
EMILY DICKINSON Truth is such a rare thing, it is a delight to tell it.
EMILY DICKINSON A Deed knocks first at Thought / And then -- it knocks at Will -- / That is the manufacturing spot.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving that makes it fat
EMILY DICKINSON Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see - but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
EMILY DICKINSON How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone.
EMILY DICKINSON Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God's residence is next to min, His furnit...
EMILY DICKINSON We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise And then, if we are true to plan Our statur...
EMILY DICKINSON To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despera...
EMILY DICKINSON A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar - Requires sorest nee...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or ...
EMILY DICKINSON A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
EMILY DICKINSON The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to...
EMILY DICKINSON I felt it shelter to speak to you.
EMILY DICKINSON Saying nothing sometimes says the most.
EMILY DICKINSON Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hope...
EMILY DICKINSON Our journey has advanced; / Our feet were almost come / To that odd fork in Being's road,/ Eternity ...
EMILY DICKINSON I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep.
The day was warm, and winds were prosy; ...
EMILY DICKINSON He fumbles at your spirit
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on;
He s...
EMILY DICKINSON Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
...
EMILY DICKINSON A great hope fell
You heard no noise
The ruin was within.
EMILY DICKINSON Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane
EMILY DICKINSON That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
EMILY DICKINSON Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, a...
EMILY DICKINSON Todo lo que sabemos del amor es que el amor es todo lo que hay.
EMILY DICKINSON We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like cost...
EMILY DICKINSON We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
EMILY DICKINSON The distance that the dead have gone/ Does not at first appear --/ Their coming back seems possible/...
EMILY DICKINSON 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...
EMILY DICKINSON Remorse --is Memory --awake --/ Her Parties all astir --/ A Presence of Departed Acts --/ At window ...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching...
EMILY DICKINSON I must go in, the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And...
EMILY DICKINSON Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
EMILY DICKINSON That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet
EMILY DICKINSON Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpass...
EMILY DICKINSON We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -...
EMILY DICKINSON How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to...
EMILY DICKINSON When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Dis...
EMILY DICKINSON