I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Twin loaves of bread have just been born into the world under my auspices. Fine children, the image of their mother. And… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Could you tell me how to grow--or is it unconveyed--like Melody--or Witchcraft?” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Inebriate of Air — am I — And Debauchee of Dew — Reeling — thro endless summer days — From Inns of Molten Blue —” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image