Quotes by Emily Dickinson

“Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to ...”

“Hope is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And sore must be the storm -That co...”

“Impossibility, like wineExhilarates the manWho tastes it; PossibilityIs flavoreless.”

“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.”

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”

“and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground because I am afraid ”

“Split the Larkand you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled.”

“This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me”

“I died for beauty but was scarceAdjusted in the tomb,When one who died for truth was lainIn an adjoining room.He questioned softly why I failed?"For beauty," I replied."And I for truth, the two are...”

“She died--this was the way she died;And when her breath was done,Took up her simple wardrobeAnd started for the sun.Her little figure at the gateThe angels must have spied,Since I could never find ...”

“Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...”

“I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die.”

“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven, ...”

“The bustle in a houseThe morning after deathIs solemnest of industriesEnacted upon earth,--The sweeping up the heart,And putting love awayWe shall not want to use againUntil eternity”

“A charm invests a faceImperfectly beheld,The lady dare not lift her veilFor fear it be dispelled.But peers beyond her mesh,And wishes, and denies,Lest interview annul a wantThat image satisfies.”

“Not with a club, the Heart is brokenNor with a Stone A Whip so small you could not see itI've known”

“Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labour, and my leisure too,For...”

“We do not play on GravesBecause there isn't RoomBesidesit isn't evenit slantsAnd People comeAnd put a Flower on itAnd hang their faces soWe're fearing that their Hearts will dropAnd crush our prett...”

“Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breastGrant God, he charge the bravestOf all the martial blest!Please God, might I behold himIn epauletted whiteI should not fear the foe thenI shou...”

“There is a pain so utter It swallows substance up Then covers the Abyss with Trance So Memory can step Around across opon it As one within a Swoon Goes safely where an open eye Would drop...”