Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore A privilege I think.
Emily Dickinson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Privilege
Mouldering
Meet
Antique
Century
Quaint
Pleasure
Antiques
Book
Wore
Think
Precious
Thinking
Dress
Dresses
More quotes by Emily Dickinson
I don't profess to be profound but I do lay claim to common sense.
Emily Dickinson
Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
Emily Dickinson
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Emily Dickinson
The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
Emily Dickinson
Fortune befriends the bold.
Emily Dickinson
Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.
Emily Dickinson
Wonder is not precisely knowing.
Emily Dickinson
I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.
Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Good times are always mutual that is what makes good times.
Emily Dickinson
Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer
Emily Dickinson
THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.
Emily Dickinson
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
Emily Dickinson
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson
Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
Emily Dickinson
We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.
Emily Dickinson
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
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
If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
Emily Dickinson