Quotes from Emily Dickinson

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise' yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

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 wares Upon my silver shelf.

Para viajar lejos, no hay mejor nave que un libro.

I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away. My heart goes wandering around and calls for Susie...My heart is full of you; none other than you are in my thoughts, yet when I seek to say to you something not for the world, words fail me. If you were here, we need not talk at all for our eyes would whisper for us and, your hand fast in mine, we would not ask for language.

Who loves you most, and loves you best, and thinks of you when others rest? 'Tis Emilie.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I'm a Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? There's a pair of us- don't tell!

I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner's lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!

My business is circumference.

It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn.

You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

Oh Susie, I often think that I will try to tell you how very dear you are, and how I'm watching for you, but the words won't come, though the tears will, and I sit down disappointed. Yet, darling, you know it all-- then why do I seek to tell you? I do not know. In thinking of those I love, my reason is all gone from me, and I do fear sometimes that I must make a hospital for the hopelessly insane, and chain myself up there so I won't injure you.

I would have drowned twice to save you sinking, dear.

A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And let no Witness in

Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. God's residence is next to min, His furniture is love.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Love is Immortality.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

We grow accustomed to the dark when light is put away--

Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

MY 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!

But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory's fog is rising.