Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinsonwas an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her life highly introverted. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a noted penchant for white clothing and became known for her reluctance to...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 December 1830
CityAmherst, MA
Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.
I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again
The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
When he tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is acquainted with grief, we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb
Beauty is not the cause of something, it is what it is.
There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.
I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.
When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he...
Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .
It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God.
Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.