"We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a ...
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
More Emily Dickinson quotes
"There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it.
"Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....
"THERE is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away...
"Split the Lark—and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled.
"Consciousness is the only home of which we know.
"So bashful when I spied her!So pretty ― so ashamed!So hidden in her leafletsLest anybody find ―So breathless till I passed her ―So helpless when I tur...
"There's a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.
"Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.
"I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, Eyes;I wonder if It weighs like Mine,Or has an Easier size.
"Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And ...
"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days...
"Love is like the wild rose-briar;Friendship like the holly-tree.The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,But which will bloom most constantly?The ...
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
"The bustle in a houseThe morning after deathIs solemnest of industriesEnacted upon earth,--The sweeping up the heart,And putting love awayWe shall not...