56 Quotes About Emily-dickinson

And somebody has lost the faceThat made existence home!

There are depths in every Consciousness, from which we cannot rescue ourselves - to which none can go with us.

I know that I myself have felt that prickling of the scalp that Emily Dickinson tells us is the sign of recognition before a true poem.

I tell the truth,' she said. 'But I tell it slant.

Bennett advises his daughter not to develop a passion for poetry because it is ‘dangerous to a woman’: like novels, poetry heightens a woman’s ‘natural sensibility to an extravagant degree’ and ‘inspires a ‘romantic turn of the mind,’ that is ‘utterly inconsistent with the solid duties and priorities of life.

Emily écrit sur le monde qu'elle habite, tout en sachant qu'il serait plus beau si personne ne l'habitait.

All she needs is to lay down a few sentences, sometimes just a few words, on paper to feel soothed, for a moment delivered from this nameless, pointless urgency that consumes her. Even saved. What is the catastrophe from which she tries to rip these lines? Oblivion, death, the inferno of the world? She couldn't say.

That Love is all there isIs all we know of Love,It is enough, the freight should beProportioned to the groove.

The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise.