“They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.”
Smile
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
DeathAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
Poetry“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Morning“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Time“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”
Poetry“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 few.”
Alone“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
Great“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Life“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Beauty“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Death“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
Truth“Where thou art, that is home.”
Art“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
Nature“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
Success“For love is immortality.”
Love“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”
Hope“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Experience“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
Truth“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Poetry