Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.
How do most people live without any thought? 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?
I have an appetite for silence.
After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!
I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious
Saying nothing. . . sometimes says the most.
Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --
My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands
A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods
When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.
The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
. . . And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.
Tell all the Truth, but tell it slantSuccess in Circuit lies.
To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Beauty is not caused. It is.
She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.