If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. — Emily Dickinson Heart Copy Share Image
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. — Emily Dickinson Birds Copy Share Image
It was not death, for I stood up, / And all the dead lie down; / It was not night, for all… — Emily Dickinson Death Copy Share Image
“They're here, though; not a creature failed, No blossom stayed away In gentle deference to me, The Queen of Calvary.” — Emily Dickinson Calvary Copy Share Image
There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around,… — Emily Dickinson Abyss Copy Share Image
An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson Anguish Copy Share Image
Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow. — Emily Dickinson Atheism Copy Share Image
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. — Emily Dickinson Creation Copy Share Image
“There is a pain – so utter – It swallows substance up – Then covers the Abyss with Trance – So Memory… — Emily Dickinson Death Copy Share Image
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In… — Emily Dickinson Chains Copy Share Image
“My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of… — Emily Dickinson Death Copy Share Image
Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
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
How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose… — Emily Dickinson Autonomy Copy Share Image
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do… — Emily Dickinson Darkness Copy Share Image
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. — Emily Dickinson Ecstasy Copy Share Image
Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God. — Emily Dickinson Atheism Copy Share Image
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing. — Emily Dickinson Bees Copy Share Image