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
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Nods from the Gilded pointers --/ Nods from the Seconds slim --/ Decades of Arrogance between/ The Dial life --/ And Him --
That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
I cannot live with You --/ It would be Life --/ And Life is over there --/ Behind the Shelf.
I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!
We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?
Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.
To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth
Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -
If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.