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

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

“Oh Susie, I often think that I will try to tell you how very dear you are, and how I'm watching for you, but the words won't come, though the tears will, and I sit down disappointed. Yet, darling, you know it all-- then why do I seek to tell you? I do not know. In thinking of those I love, my reason is all gone from me, and I do fear sometimes that I must make a hospital for the hopelessly insane, and chain myself up there so I won't injure you.”

“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis”

“A wounded dear leaps the highest”

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

“Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn”

“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”

“from the poem”

“[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.”

“Life is but a day;”

“I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job”

“I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to love the world and be the change it so deliciously craved.”