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

“I can wade Grief—”

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can 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?”

““If I can stop one Heart from breaking,”

“The sun just touched the morning;”

“If I can stop one Heart from breaking,”

“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”

“You cannot devote your life to an abstraction. Indeed, life shatters all abstractions in one way or another, including words such as "faith" or "belief". If God is not in the very fabric of existence for you, if you do not find Him (or miss Him!) in the details of your daily life, then religion is just one more way to commit spiritual suicide.”

“Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language.”

“I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it’s summer, so it’s suicide, so we’re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.”

“Break my heart and you will find yourself inside.”

“And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,”