Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems

Quotes

• “Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all,And ...”
• “Much Madness Is Divinest SenseMuch Madness is divinest Sense —To a discerning Eye —Much Sense — the starkest Madness —'T...”
• “THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire,He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her.De...”
• “I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit.The tho...”
• “I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dr...”
• “I stepped from Plank to PlankSo slow and cautiouslyThe Stars about my Head I felt,About my Feet the Sea.I knew not but t...”
• “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are fe...”
• “A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think.”
• “I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit.”
• “A Word is DeadA word is deadWhen it is said,Some say.I say it justBegins to liveThat day.”
• “Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.”
• “One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
• “The Soul selects her own Society.”