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Best Quotes by Emily Dickinson (116)

Discover the most loved quotes from Emily Dickinson's poetry.

"And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die." from The heart asks pleasure first · 30 ♥

"And thus, without a wing, Or service of a keel, Our summer made her light escape Into the beautiful." from As imperceptibly as grief · 18 ♥

"I'M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?" from I'm nobody! Who are you? · 16 ♥

"I'M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us—don't tell! They'd banish us, you know." from I'm nobody! Who are you? · 13 ♥

"Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!" from Rouge gagne · 7 ♥

"And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop—docile and omnipotent— At its own stable door." from The Railway Train · 6 ♥

"THERE is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bear…" from A Book · 6 ♥

"I NEVER hear the word "escape" Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude. I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down, But I tug childish at my bars,— Only to fail…" from Escape · 6 ♥

"When everything that ticked has stopped, And space stares, all around, Or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, Repeal the beating ground." from It was not death, for I stood up · 5 ♥

"I know some lonely houses off the road" from The Lonely House · 5 ♥

"These fleshless lovers met, A heaven in a gaze, A heaven of heavens, the privilege Of one another's eyes." from Resurrection · 5 ♥

"The smallest "robe" will fit me, And just a bit of "crown;" For you know we do not mind our dress When we are going home." from Going to heaven! · 5 ♥

"Till, his best step approaching, We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away." from Waiting · 5 ♥

"IT dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my mind; Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less Than I reviled myself For entertaining plated …" from Disenchantment · 5 ♥

"The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-…" from Autumn · 4 ♥

"Then look out for the little brook in March, When the rivers overflow, And the snows come hurrying from the hills, And the bridges often go." from Have you got a brook in your little heart? · 4 ♥

"There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see." from Dying · 4 ♥

"Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not." from The Mystery of Pain · 4 ♥

""'T is iris, sir, and aster, Anemone and bell, Batschia in the blanket red, And chubby daffodil."" from The Sleeping Flowers · 4 ♥

"THE cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon." from Evening · 4 ♥

"It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy." from So proud she was to die · 4 ♥

"WHO never lost, are unprepared A coronet to find; Who never thirsted, flagons And cooling tamarind." from Triumphant · 4 ♥

"Admonished by her buckled lips Let every babbler be. The only secret people keep Is Immortality." from Reticence · 4 ♥

"THE brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside." from The Brain · 4 ♥

"A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity." from There is a solitude of space · 4 ♥

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