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Emily Dickinson

1830-1886 ,  American poet
Emily DickinsonLyric poet who lived in seclusion. Little-known during her life, though she was a prolific writer (1800 poems).
Only after her death in 1886, when her younger sister, discovered her cache of poems, her work became public. Her first collection was published in 1890.
With W.Whitman, Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the two leading 19th-century American poets.

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That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

I have an appetite for silence.

There is always one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else.

Forever is composed of nows.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.


To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Quotes in Verse

I am nobody! Who are you?
Are you a nobody, too?


Futile—the winds—
To a heart in port—
Done with the compass—
Done with the chart!


Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul
and sings the tunes without the words
and never stops at all.


The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away…

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

To shut your eyes is to travel.

Anger as soon as fed is dead-
‘Tis starving makes it fat.


I have been bent and broken, but –I hope– into a better shape.

Parting is all we know of Heaven,
and all we need of Hell.


But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, Eyes;
I wonder if It weighs like Mine,
Or has an Easier size.


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.


Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.


November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.


To be alive – is Power.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

    The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

    You don’t have to be a house to be haunted.

    The Heart wants what it wants
    or else it does not care.


    I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.


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