Quote

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Emily Dickinson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emily Dickinson
Age: 55 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 10
Died: 1886
Died: May 15
Poet
Writer
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Ai-mi-li Ti-chin-sen
Emilia Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Relationship
Speak
Inspirational
Felt
Shelter
Smile

More quotes by Emily Dickinson

Image
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
Emily Dickinson
Image
PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.
Emily Dickinson
Image
God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.
Emily Dickinson
Image
A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
Emily Dickinson
Image
Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...
Emily Dickinson
Image
I tasted life.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.
Emily Dickinson
Image
I have an appetite for silence.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.
Emily Dickinson
Image
When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.
Emily Dickinson
Image
That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.
Emily Dickinson
Image
That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Prayer is the little implement through which men reach where presence is denied them.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-
Emily Dickinson
Image
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until
Emily Dickinson
Image
The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.
Emily Dickinson