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
The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.
His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?
This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me
To shut your eyes is to travel.
The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.