Emily Dickinson

Quotes

• “There is another thing about my childhood that is interesting now, in the light of later happenings. I might have said, ...”
• “Emily Dickinson is the female Sade, and her poems are the prison dreams of a self-incarcerated, sadmomasochistic imagini...”
• “Emily Dickinson is nearly infinite in her expression. She wrote seventeen hundred and seventy-five poems, and they const...”
• “Hope" is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - a...”
• “One who, as a child, knew Emily Dickinson well and loved her much recollects her most vividly as a white, ethereal visio...”
• “Not with a Club, the Heart is broken Nor with a Stone - A Whip so small you could not see it I've knownTo lash the Magic...”
• “No rack can torture me, My soul 's at liberty. Behind this mortal bone There knits a bolder oneYou cannot prick with saw...”
• “It makes no difference abroad, The seasons fit the same, The mornings blossom into noons, And split their pods of flame....”
• “Her poetry is the diary or autobiography - though few diaries or autobiographies compare with it for intentional and, es...”
• “Emily Dickinson, whose unappeasable thirst for fame was itself unknown for years after her death, had to fight through h...”
• “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -Untouched by Morning -And untouched by noon -Sleep the meek members of the Resurrectio...”
• “Drowning is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise. Three times, 'tis said, a sinking man Comes up to face the skies, And...”
• “It tossed and tossed,- A little brig I knew,- O'ertook by blast, It spun and spun, And groped delirious, for morn.It sli...”
• “Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires a sorest need.Not one of all the...”
• “Nature is what we see, The Hill, the Afternoon- Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee, Nay-Nature is Heaven.Nature is what w...”
• “How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears...”
• “Dickinson's sentimental feminine poems remain neglected by embarrassed scholars. I would maintain, however, that her poe...”
• “I reason, earth is short, And anguish absolute. And many hurt; But what of that?I reason, we could die: The best vitalit...”
• “The complexity of women's undergarments in nineteenth-century America is not to be waved off, and I proceeded like a pol...”
• “I died for Beauty - but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb, When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room -' H...”
• “Fate slew him, but he did not drop; She felled-he did not fall- Impaled him on her fiercest stakes- He neutralized them ...”
• “If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physica...”
• “There's no higher entitlement than thinking that you should live forever, when part of the beauty of nature is that even...”
• “Emily Dickinson - viewed by her bemused contemporary Thomas Higginson as "partially cracked," by the twentieth century a...”
• “Friday I tasted life. It was a vast morsel. A circus passed the house - still I feel the red in my mind though the drums...”
• “The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear; Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year....”
• “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surp...”
• “They shut me up in Prose -As when a little GirlThey put me in the Closet -Because they liked me "still" -Still! Could th...”
• “Upon the gallows hung a wretch, Too sullied for the hell To which the law entitled him. As nature's curtain fell The one...”
• “My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -In Corners - till a DayThe Owner passed - identified -And carried Me away -And now We ...”
• “Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast; Grant, God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest.Ple...”
• “New feet within my garden go, New fingers stir the sod; A troubadour upon the elm Betrays the solitude.New children play...”
• “I taste a liquor never brewed -From Tankards scooped in Pearl -Not all the Frankfort BerriesYield such an Alcohol!Inebri...”
• “My mother was the first songwriter I knew; Emily Dickinson was the first poet and my grandmother the first storyteller.....”
• “Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.When you have...”
• “Wild nights - Wild nights!Were I with theeWild nights should beOur luxury!Futile - the winds -To a Heart in port -Done w...”
• “This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me - The simple News that Nature told - With tender Majesty Her Messa...”
• “Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me - The Carriage held but just Ourselves - And Immortality.W...”
• “A Grave - is a restricted Breadth -Yet ampler than the Sun -And all the Seas He populatesAnd lands he looks uponTo Him w...”
• “I took my power in my hand And went against the world; 'Twas not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold.I aimed m...”
• “I'm from the Emily Dickinson and Flannery O'Connor school of writing, where you write about your Amherst backyard or abo...”
• “Mine enemy is growing old,- I have at last revenge. The palate of the hate departs; If any would avenge,-Let him be quic...”
• “My life closed twice before its close;It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveilA third event to me,So huge, so hopeless...”
• “(What is it about Emily Dickinson that moves you?) Her use of language, certainly. Her solitude, as well, and the style ...”
• “No great poet has written so much bad verse as Emily Dickinson...Her coy and oddly childish poems of nature and female f...”
• “Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the...”
• “Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.Of heaven above th...”
• “Quoted by Julia Alvarez in an interview, "By the Book: Julia Alvarez", The New York Times (April 11, 2019) online. A ver...”
• “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 G...”
• “So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed.So satisfied to g...”