Poetry Quote by Emily Dickinson Download Open image ““A wounded dear leaps the highest”” — Emily Dickinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
“A human heart breaks harder when it’s dropped from a greater height.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may perish through a small matter: thus he goes willingly over the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Having wounded each other thus, deeply, almost mortally, the two sat quietly side by side on someone’s sunny grave, haemorrhaging.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again” — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“The strongest soldier cannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart, and whatever way he falls, the cut… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
“You have to descend to the valley of humility to climb to heights of character.” — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
“What happens to us is for the Most High to be revealed in glory.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
