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
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.
How lucious lies the pea within the pod.
Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!
'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
There came a wind like a bugle; / It quivered through the grass.
Truth is such a rare thing, it is a delight to tell it.
To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be!
Experiment to me Is every one I meet If it contain a Kernel? The Figure of a Nut Presents upon a Tree Equally plausibly, But Meat within, is requisite To Squirrels, and to Me
Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see - but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency