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
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Till I loved I never lived.
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 --
You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.
How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!
I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
I dwell in possibility.
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Fortune befriends the bold.