Emily Dickinson Quotes on Love
Oh the Earth was made for lovers, for damsel, and hopeless swain, You love me—you are sure—
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! We are the only poets, and everyone else is prose. —from a letter to Susan
Emily Dickinson Quotes on Hope
“Hope” is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all— Either the Darkness alters— Or something in the sight Adjusts itself to Midnight— And Life steps almost straight.
Emily Dickinson Quotes on Grief
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes— I wonder if It weights like Mine— Or has an Easier size. I tried to think a lonelier Thing Than any I had seen— There is a pain—so utter— It swallows substance up— There is a Languor of the Life More imminent than Pain— ‘Tis Pain’s Successor—When the Soul Has suffered all it can—
Emily Dickinson Quotes on Death
Death sets a Thing significant The Eye had hurried by Except a perished Creature Entreat us tenderly
Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality Behind Me—dips Eternity— Before Me—Immortality— Myself—the Term between— Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray Dissolving into Dawn away— Before the West begin— The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying—this to Us Made Nature different There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House As lately as Today— I know it, by the numb look Such Houses have—alway—
Emily Dickinson Quotes on Nature
The Birds declaim their Tunes— Pronouncing every word Like Hammers—Did they know they fell Like Litanies of Lead The Spider holds a Silver Ball In unperceived Hands— And dancing softly to Himself His Yarn of Pearl—unwinds— A Spider sewed at Night Without a Light Upon an Arc of White Had I not seen the Sun I could have borne the shade Winter under cultivation Is as arable as Spring
More Emily Dickinson Quotes
I dwell in Possibility— A fairer House than Prose— More numerous of — Superior—for Doors—
Forever—is composed of Nows— ‘Tis not a different time— Except for Infiniteness— And Latitude of Home— Looking for more Emily Dickinson? Try Emily Dickinson Swag. Want more poetry art? Try these 15 Gorgeous Prints. Need more quotes in your life? Try the Poetry category or check out these 30 Quotes About Poetry.
