“A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.”
Source: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Source: Dickinson
“Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Emily Dickinson
“My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!”
Source: Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts
“Publication - is the auction of the mind.”
Source: Dickinson
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?”
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.”
“Spring is the Period Express from God.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.”
Source: Dickinson
Source: Poems (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
“Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.”
“God, keep me from what they call 'households,'”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
Source: Selected Letters
“Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)