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
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.
Truth - is as old as God - ...
I dwell in possiblities.
Nothing is the force that renovates the World.
God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.
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.
I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.
Love is everything. And that's all we know about it.
To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.
How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door ...
Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!
The Truth never flaunted a sign.