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

“I can wade Grief—”

“She died--this was the way she died;”

“How happy is the little stone”

“The sun just touched the morning;”

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

““Heart, we will forget him,”

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and shake out your darkest feelings, without worrying that people would think you were strange. While I was writing, I would forget myself and everyone else; poetry made me feel part of something noble and beautiful and bigger than me. [...] I slid them under the carpet as soon as they were done, all the images and rhymes wrestled into place. By the time I had copied them out, I found I had memorized every line. Then they would surprise me by surging through me, like songs I knew by heart.”

“This is the creature there has never been.”

“Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.”

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

“Stephen kissed me in the spring,”

“The South-wind brings”