Quote

The past is not a package one can lay away.

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
Past
Package
Packages
Lays
Away

More quotes by Emily Dickinson

Image
What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star
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
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
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --
Emily Dickinson
Image
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.
Emily Dickinson
Image
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson
Image
I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Publication - is the auction of the mind.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
Image
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson
Image
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Hope is a thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson
Image
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?
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
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.
Emily Dickinson
Image
To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction- To own her for a Friend A warmth as near as if the the Sun Were shining in your Hand.
Emily Dickinson