Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.
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
Doubt
Raise
Graze
Sleep
Till
Abet
Must
Raises
Withheld
Even
Hungry
Fleet
Love
Shining
Gaze
Flesh
Equivalent
Tired
Giant
Dead
Giants
More quotes by 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
Fortune befriends the bold.
Emily Dickinson
That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.
Emily Dickinson
The hearts that never lean must fall.
Emily Dickinson
I have an appetite for silence.
Emily Dickinson
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
Emily Dickinson
The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.
Emily Dickinson
The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
Emily Dickinson
Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.
Emily Dickinson
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity
Emily Dickinson
One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady
Emily Dickinson
September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.
Emily Dickinson
You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!
Emily Dickinson
Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes
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
When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.
Emily Dickinson
Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.
Emily Dickinson
All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.
Emily Dickinson