"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
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Emily Dickinson
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Quotes by Emily Dickinson
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
"A wounded dear leaps the highest"
"Faith—is the Pierless BridgeSupporting what We seeUnto the Scene that We do not—Too slender for the eyeIt bears the Soul as boldAs it were rocked in SteelWith Arms of Steel at either side—It joins—behind the VeilTo what, could We presumeThe Bridge would cease to beTo Our far, vacillating FeetA first Necessity."
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--"
"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
"The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care"
"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."
"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"
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
"She dealt her pretty words like Blades --How glittering they shone --And every One unbared a NerveOr wantoned with a Bone --She never deemed -- she hurt --That -- is not Steel's Affair --A vulgar grimace in the Flesh --How ill the Creatures bear --To Ache is human -- not polite --The Film upon the eyeMortality's old Custom --Just locking up -- to Die."
"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality"
"Kein Schiff trägt uns besser in ferne Länder, als ein Buch."