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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Quotes
34 of the best book quotes from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
- #1“To be alive──is Power.”
- #2“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
- #3“If certain, when this life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I ’d toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity.” - #4“Now, when I read, I read not,
For interrupting tears
Obliterate the etchings
Too costly for repairs.” - #5“I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes –
I wonder if It weighs like Mine –
Or has an Easier size.” - #6“Water is taught by thirst;
Land, by the oceans passed;
Transport, by throe;
Peace, by its battles told;
Love, by memorial mould;
Birds, by the snow.” - #7“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.” - #8“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee—” - #9“Not with a club, the Heart is broken
Nor with a Stone –
A Whip so small you could not see it
I’ve known” - #10“Why joys so scantily disburse,
Why Paradise defer,
Why floods are served to us in bowls,—
I speculate no more.” - #11“The Soul selects her own Society.”
- #12“Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.” - #13“The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.”
- #14“Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true”
- #15“It might be lonelier
Without the Loneliness” - #16“The Brain is deeper than the sea”
- #17“While I was fearing it, it came,
But came with less of fear,
Because that fearing it so long
Had almost made it dear.” - #18“I am not used to Hope —
It might intrude upon —
Its sweet parade — blaspheme the place —
Ordained to Suffering —” - #19“I started early, took my dog,
And visited the sea;
The mermaids in the basement
Came out to look at me” - #20“In a serener Bright,
In a more golden light
I see
Each little doubt and fear,
Each little discord here
Removed.” - #21“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
- #22“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all”
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- #23“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
- #24“I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –” - #25“If you were coming in the fall,
I’d brush the summer by” - #26“The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.” - #27“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
- #28“Earth is crammed with Heaven.”
- #29“The moon was but a chin of gold
A night or two ago,
And now she turns her perfect face
Upon the world below.” - #30″‘Tis harder knowing it is due,
Than knowing it is here.” - #31“Death is like the insect
Menacing the tree,
Competent to kill it,
But decoyed may be.” - #32“Then I will not repine
Knowing that bird of mine
Though flown shall in a distant tree
Bright melody for me
Return.” - #33“For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.” - #34“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.”
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