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
There is no frigate like a book
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
For love is immortality.
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
The past is not a package one can lay away.
If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve
The Soul should always stand ajar.
My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?
I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.