More quotes by Emily Dickinson

"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."
"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!"
"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality"
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
"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."