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
One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
I'll tell you how the Sun rose.
[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
Bring me the sunset in a cup.
Till I loved I never lived.
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?
Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!
You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.