Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. — Emily Dickinson Celebrity Copy Share Image
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. — Emily Dickinson Life 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
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
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
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity. — Emily Dickinson Eternity 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
“Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thrones But I have… — Emily Dickinson Emily-dickinson Copy Share Image
A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The hallowing of Pain Like hallowing of Heaven, Obtains at a corporeal cost -- The Summit is not given to Him who… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Harm is one of those things that I always mean to keep clear of, but somehow my intentions and me don't chime… — Emily Dickinson Harm Copy Share Image
I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Atheism Copy Share Image
The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies. — Emily Dickinson Commandment Copy Share Image
Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live? — Emily Dickinson Anguish Copy Share Image
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. — Emily Dickinson Inspirational Copy Share Image
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! — Emily Dickinson Avarice Copy Share Image
“Inebriate of Air — am I — And Debauchee of Dew — Reeling — thro endless summer days — From Inns of Molten Blue —” — Emily Dickinson Nature Copy Share Image
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. — Emily Dickinson God Copy Share Image
And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow. — Emily Dickinson Angel Copy Share Image
The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
