Tag: Emily Dickinson
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God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
Emily Dickinson
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily Dickinson
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If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
Emily Dickinson
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
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The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
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I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
Emily Dickinson
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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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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson