Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet who led a secluded life. Her poems were unpublished during her lifetime. Her poetry is noted for spare, insightful, sometimes mystical nature.Wisdom & Quotes
- The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time to him
Is aristocracy.
- Beauty crowds me till I die,
Beauty, mercy have on me!
Yet if I expire today
Let it be in sight of thee!
- If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain.
- That short, potential stir
That each can make but once,
That bustle so illustrious
'Tis almost consequence,
Is the eclat of death.
- Time and Eternity
- Death is the supple Suitor
That wins at last -
It is a stealthy Wooing
Conducted first
By pallid innuendoes
And dim approach
But brave at last with Bugles.
- Safe Despair it is what raves -
Agony is frugal.
Puts itself severe away
For its own perusal.
- I never talked with God,
Not visited in Heaven -
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.
- I Never Saw a Moor
- The Soul selects her own
Society -
Then - shuts the Door -
- Eden is that old-fashioned House
We dwell in every day;
Without suspecting our abode
Until we drive away.
- 'Hope' is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
- A great Hope fell
You heard no noise
The Ruin was within.
- How do most people live without any thoughts? There are many people in the world - you must have noticed them in the street - how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?
- Assent - and you are sane -
Demure - you're straightaway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain - .
- Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
- Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
- Reverse cannot befall that find
Prosperity
Whose sources are interior.
As soon Adversity
A diamond overtake.
- Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
And Immortality.
- Because I could not stop for Death
- The dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the grass,
And winter instantly becomes
An infinite alas.
- Fame is a bee,
It has a song -
It has a sting -
Ah, too, it has a wing.
- It will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
- Luck is not a chance -
It's toil -
Fortune's expensive smile
Is earned.
- Prayer is the little implement
Through which men reach
Where presence - is denied them.
- A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
- A wounded deer - leaps highest.
Yoshida Shoin
Nearby pages
Emir, Emission, Emissions Trading, Emma Goldman, Emma Lazarus