“To wait an Hour—is long— If Love be just beyond— To wait Eternity—is short— If Love reward the end—” — Emily Dickinson Eternity Copy Share Image
I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark. — Emily Dickinson Book Copy Share Image
A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson Animal Copy Share Image
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the… — Emily Dickinson Fear Copy Share Image
The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But… — Emily Dickinson Dominion Copy Share Image
“Soul, wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost, indeed, But tens have won all. Angels' breathless ballot… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“If the stillness is Volcanic In the human face When upon a pain Titanic Features keep their place- If at length the… — Emily Dickinson Serenity 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
The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And… — Emily Dickinson Childhood 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
God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other… — Emily Dickinson Bears Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more fugal than a book to take you to different lands” — Emily Dickinson Book Copy Share Image
The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until — Emily Dickinson Altruism Copy Share Image
Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest. — Emily Dickinson Evening Copy Share Image
Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out — Emily Dickinson Action Copy Share Image
Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term. — Emily Dickinson Eternity Copy Share Image
“A un cuore in pezzi Nessuno s’avvicini Senza l’alto privilegio Di avere sofferto altrettanto.” — Emily Dickinson Amor Copy Share Image
His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God's residence is next to min, His furniture is love.” — Emily Dickinson Heaven Copy Share Image
I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not… — 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
They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. — Emily Dickinson Demon Copy Share Image
“I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, . . . The little toil of love, I thought,… — Emily Dickinson Emily-dickinson Copy Share Image
The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. — Emily Dickinson Brain Copy Share Image
I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave… — Emily Dickinson Earth Copy Share Image
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe. — Emily Dickinson Brave Copy Share Image
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. — Emily Dickinson Ecstatic Copy Share Image
Forever is composed of Nows 'Tis not a different time Except for Infiniteness And Latitude of Home — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly. — Emily Dickinson Commerce Copy Share Image
