Emily Dickinson: Letters
Emily Dickinson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When the Best is gone - I know that other things are not of consequence - The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care -”
“It's a great thing to be "great," Loo, and you and I might tug for a life, and never accomplish it, but no one can stop our looking on, and you know some cannot sing, but the orchard is full of birds, and we all can listen. What if we learn, ourselves, some day!”
“I am glad you have an hour for books, those enthralling friends, the immortalities...”
“An ill heart, like a body, has its more comfortable days, and then its days of pain, its long relapse, when rallying requires more effort than to dissolve life, and death looks choiceless.”
“You have seen flowers at morning satisfied with the dew, and those same sweet flowers at noon with their heads bowed in anguish before the mighty sun; think you these thirsty blossoms will now need nought but—dew? No, they will cry for sunlight, and pine for the burning noon, tho’ it scorches them, scathes them...”
“Let us strive together to part with time more reluctantly, to watch the pinions of the fleeting moment until they are dim in the distance, and the new-coming moment claims our attention.”
“It is strange that the most intangible thing is the most adhesive.”
“A letter always feels to me like Immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”
“We cherish all the past, we glide a-down the present, awake yet dreaming; but the future of ours together—there the bird sings loudest, and the sun shines always there...”
“I will show you the sunset if you will sit by me, but I cannot bring it there, for so much gold is heavy.”
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