Assent-and you are sane-, Demur-you're straightway dangerous-, And handled with a Chain-. . . .
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 435, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 916, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small - Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 1551, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Source: Letter, I885; in Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.
There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry.
Source: Letter, 1885; in Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.
The brain is wider than the sky; For put them side by side The one the other will contain with ease - And you beside.
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 632, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
Source: Letter, 1874; in Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.
Pain - has an element of Blank - It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were A time when it was not. . . .
Source: 1862; Poems, First Series, 1890.
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