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 only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.
The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.
God, keep me from what they call 'households,'
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity.
You can stay young as long as you learn.
What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.
The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth
To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.
I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing...
Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.