If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.


Emily Dickinson

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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