Emily DickinsonA precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think. ✨ Emily Dickinson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of E… ▶371ReadingThought
Emily DickinsonThese are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look. ✨ These are the days when birds l. 1 (ca. 1859)362Thought
Emily DickinsonIf I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry… ▶362LifeReading
Emily DickinsonHope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the sto… ▶362Hope
Emily DickinsonA wounded deer leaps the highest.351Time
Emily DickinsonYou ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). The Letters of Emily Di… ▶352Humor
Emily DickinsonLove is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). The Letters of Emily Dickin… ▶352Love
Emily DickinsonThe possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, p.662, Harvard University Pre… ▶341Politics
Emily DickinsonBehavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.341Thought
Emily DickinsonFind ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. ✨ Selected Letters. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,341Life
Emily DickinsonI can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor … ▶353Sadness
Emily DickinsonThe dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.353ReadingTime
Emily DickinsonOne need not be a chamber to be haunted. ✨ Emily Dickinson (2013). Poems by Emily Dickinson, p.145, Library of Alexandria375Death
Emily DickinsonMuch Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye. ✨ Much madness is divinest sense l. 1 (ca. 1863)375Death
Emily DickinsonForever is composed of nows. ✨ Emily Dickinson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated), p.2106, Delphi Classics364Sadness
Emily DickinsonIf I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ✨ Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)375LifeReading
Emily DickinsonA little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. ✨ Emily Dickinson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated), p.1613, Delphi Classics343Sadness
Emily DickinsonTo 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. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). Dicki… ▶365Love
Emily DickinsonIf I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. ✨ If I can stop one heart from breaking l. 1 (ca. 1865)376Love
Emily DickinsonWe outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. ✨ Emily Dickinson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of … ▶311Love
Emily DickinsonFor love is immortality. ✨ Emily Dickinson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated), p.1081, Delphi Classics355DeathLove
Emily DickinsonMY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me! ✨ Emily Dick… ▶323Reading
Emily DickinsonThe lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). The Letters of Emily Dickinson, p.907, … ▶356Love
Emily DickinsonThis is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go--- ✨ 'After great pain, a formal fee… ▶301Sadness
Emily DickinsonTo be alive──is Power.312LifePolitics
Emily DickinsonI lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more estee… ▶378Time
Emily DickinsonSuccess is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. ✨ Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them. Edited by Cristanne Miller,356Love
Emily Dickinsonin this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). The Poems of Emily Dickinson, p.502, Ha… ▶291LifePolitics
Emily DickinsonThe Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Na… ▶324LovePoliticsThought
Emily DickinsonInebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue. ✨ I taste a liquor never brewed l. 5 (ca. 1861)324Time
