Quote

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

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
Chains
Atheism
Dangerous
Straightaway
Assent
Handled
Chain
Sane

More quotes by Emily Dickinson

Image
Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
Image
My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?
Emily Dickinson
Image
Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!
Emily Dickinson
Image
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
Emily Dickinson
Image
The brain is wider than the sky.
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
That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -
Emily Dickinson
Image
The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.
Emily Dickinson
Image
And you dropt, lost, When something broke-- And let you from a Dream
Emily Dickinson
Image
The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.
Emily Dickinson
Image
I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.
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
A Murmur in the Trees - to note - Not loud enough - for Wind - A Star - not far enough to seek - Nor near enough - to find
Emily Dickinson
Image
I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.
Emily Dickinson
Image
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
Emily Dickinson
Image
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
Emily Dickinson