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
Publication - is the auction of the mind...
This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me.
A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.
Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth
Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...
'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!
Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...
There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.
I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.
Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....
The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease - and You - beside - The Brain is deeper than the sea - For- hold them - Blue to Blue - The one the other will absorb - As Sponges - Buckets - do - The Brain is just the weight of God - For - Heft them - Pound for Pound - And they will differ - if they do - As Syllable from Sound.