Quote

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

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
Heaven
Host
Troubling
Upon
Accomplished
Depart
Soul
Wait
Bolts
Always
Door
Visitors
Ajar
Seek
Guest
Visitor
Doors
Obliged
Slid
Stand
Shy
Bolt
Waiting
Guests
Inquire

More quotes by Emily Dickinson

Image
If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
Emily Dickinson
Image
I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.
Emily Dickinson
Image
I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The past is not a package one can lay away.
Emily Dickinson
Image
I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.
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
His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!
Emily Dickinson
Image
Speech is one symptom of affection and silence one the perfect communication is heard of none.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The hearts that never lean must fall.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Wonder is not precisely knowing.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.
Emily Dickinson
Image
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson
Image
I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson
Image
a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.
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
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