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

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”

“I died for beauty, but was scarce”

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

“We never know how high we are”

“Over the fence—”

“We do not play on Graves—”

“You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.”

“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”

“On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,”

“(I pull the second to last item out of my bag. Her purple hair clip. She told me once how much it meant to her, and why she always keeps it.)”

“if we must”

“Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers dot the land in the breeze's chase while the land colored up in red after the kiss.”