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.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!
The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
So few that live have life ...
To die before one fears to die may be a boon.
Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
To be alive──is Power.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -