Poetry Quote by Emily Dickinson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“This is the Hour of Lead –”

“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis”

“We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.”

“One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —”

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”

“Safe Despair it is that raves—”

“I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.”

“stay”

“When you were sleeping on the sofa”

“La heradera del dia destruida.”

“In a field”

“I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.”