Quote

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

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
Tell
Life
Draught
Precisely
Price
Market
Paid
Took
Existence

More quotes by Emily Dickinson

Image
Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Spring is the Period Express from God.
Emily Dickinson
Image
An altered look about the hills A Tyrian light the village fills A wider sunrise in the dawn A deeper twilight on the lawn A print of a vermilion foot A purple finger on the slope A flippant fly upon the pane A spider at his trade again An added strut in chanticleer A flower expected everywhere.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Hope is a thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson
Image
Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.
Emily Dickinson
Image
God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Friends are nations in themselves.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.
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
I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes
Emily Dickinson
Image
I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
Emily Dickinson