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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.”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
power
life
#2
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
truth
#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.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
love
death
#4
“Now, when I read, I read not,
For interrupting tears
Obliterate the etchings
Too costly for repairs.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
reading
#5
“I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes –
I wonder if It weighs like Mine –
Or has an Easier size.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
grief
#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.”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
learning
#7
“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
#8
“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee—”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
poems
#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”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
love
#10
“Why joys so scantily disburse,
Why Paradise defer,
Why floods are served to us in bowls,—
I speculate no more.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
happiness
suffering
#11
“The Soul selects her own Society.”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
friendship
#12
“Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
success
failure
#13
“The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
judgement
bees
#14
“Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
heaven
#15
“It might be lonelier
Without the Loneliness”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
loneliness
#16
“The Brain is deeper than the sea”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
brain
#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.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
fear
#18
“I am not used to Hope —
It might intrude upon —
Its sweet parade — blaspheme the place —
Ordained to Suffering —”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
hoping
suffering
#19
“I started early, took my dog,
And visited the sea;
The mermaids in the basement
Came out to look at me”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
The Ocean
mermaids
#20
“In a serener Bright,
In a more golden light
I see
Each little doubt and fear,
Each little discord here
Removed.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
doubts
fear
#21
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
nature
#22
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
hoping
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#23
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
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Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
love
#24
“I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
choices
#25
“If you were coming in the fall,
I’d brush the summer by”
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Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
Fall
love
#26
“The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
brain
#27
“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
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Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
adventures
success
failure
#28
“Earth is crammed with Heaven.”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
heaven
life
#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.”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
moon
#30
″‘Tis harder knowing it is due,
Than knowing it is here.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
fear
#31
“Death is like the insect
Menacing the tree,
Competent to kill it,
But decoyed may be.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
death
#32
“Then I will not repine
Knowing that bird of mine
Though flown shall in a distant tree
Bright melody for me
Return.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
birds
#33
“For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.”
author
Emily Dickenson
book
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concepts
happiness
suffering
#34
“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.”
author
Emily Dickenson
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
concept
leaving
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