Emily Dickinson Quotes and Quotation
(1830–1886)
''Various editions of Emily Dickinson's poetry exist. There is a great diversity of typography, and some of titles and arrangements. These initial fragments are presented without title, but generally used titles and probable dates will gradually be provided.
- If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain. - Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all;
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm. - The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more. - This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me—
The simple News that Nature told—
With tender Majesty
Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see—
For love of Her—Sweet-countrymen-
Judge tenderly—of Me - The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy. - I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth, —the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names. - Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires a sorest need.
Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory
As he defeated—dying—
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear! - I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given. - "Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you—Nobody—too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Dont tell! they'd banish us—you know!
How dreary—to be—Somebody!
How public—like a Frog—
To tell your name—the livelong June—
To an admiring Bog!- ''In some editions, "June" is "day"
- ''In some editions, "June" is "day"
- Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality…
Since then—'tis Centuries—and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses Heads
Were toward Eternity— - Not with a club the heart is broken
Nor with a stone;
A whip so small you could not see it
I've known
To lash the magic creature
Till it fell,
Yet that whip's name
Too noble then to tell.
Magnanimous as bird
By boy descried,
Singing unto the stone
Of which it died;
Shame need not crouch
In such an earth as ours
Stand—stand erect;
The universe is yours. - Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or everyman be blind— - Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,
With a bobolink for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.
Some keep the Sabbath in surplice;
I just wear my wings,
And instead of tolling the bell for church,
Our little sexton sings.
God preaches,—a noted clergyman,—
And the sermon is never long;
So instead of getting to heaven at last,
I’m going all along!- Complete Poems #57
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