“After great pain, a formal feeling comes”
#nature
10 quotes
“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. A little Madness in the Spring”
“By the Book: Julia Alvarez”
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Letter to Louise Norcross (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 499, no. 379”
“To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations. Letter to T. W. Higginson (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 380, no. 381”
“If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Letter to T. W. Higginson (1870); Letters (1958) p. 474, no. 342a”
“I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur”
“My friends are my "estate." Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859); Thomas H. Johnson (ed.) The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958) p. 338, no. 193”
“Friday I tasted life. It was a vast morsel. A circus passed the house”
“God is sitting here, looking into my very soul to see if I think right thoughts . Yet I am not afraid, for I try to be right and good; and He knows every one of my struggles. Letter to Abiah Root (29 January 1850); Mabel Loomis Todd (ed.) Letters of Emily Dickinson , vol. 1 (Boston: Roberts Bros, 1894) p. 39 [1] [2]”