Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
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“Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Love can do all but raise the Dead.”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.”
“In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!”
Source: Dickinson
“The Truth never flaunted a sign.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.”
Source: Selected Letters
Source: Selected Letters
Source: Selected Letters
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.”
“Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.”
Source: The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone”
Source: Dickinson
“The revery alone will do If bees are few.”
Source: Dickinson
“And you dropt, lost, When something broke-- And let you from a Dream”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides”
Source: Emily Dickinson
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain”
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Pain has an element of blank”
Source: Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.”
Source: Poems
Source: Dickinson