Emily-dickinson Quote by Emily Dickinson

“The strong and strange thing—that which moves on its way as do birth and death, and the rising and setting of the sun—had begun…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Indeed, it was perhaps the most iconic scene from any novel of its day, immortalised in engravings and artworks from the period and later.…

— Alfie Bown

“Ah lucklesse babe, borne vnder cruell starre, And in dead parents balefull ashes bred, Full litle weenest thou, what sorrowes are Left thee for…

— Edmund Spenser

“The Lord and Lady of the Fair Folk sat at our own table, dressed in robes of red and black, their faces painted in…

— Virginia Chandler

“A bride, before a ‘Good-night’ could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? When young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet smiles we…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory, [1]         and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,”

— Crossway

“They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendor, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Limping, attendants rushed up to support him, Attendants made of gold who looked like real girls, With a mind within, and a voice, and…

— Homer

“Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid! Have you conspired, have you with the contrived To bait me with this foul derision? Is all the counsel…

— William Shakespeare

“How they are all about, these gentlemen In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced, Like night around their order's star and gem And growing ever…

— Rainer Maria Rilke