Emily Dickinson: Zitate auf Englisch

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

“A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”

“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS.”

“The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee…”

“Forever is composed of nows.”

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”

“This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me”

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”

“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”

“Love — thou art Veiled —
A few — behold thee —
Smile — and alter — and prattle — and die —
Bliss — were an Oddity — without thee —
Nicknamed by God —
Eternity”

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”

“Because I could not stop for Death —
He kindly stopped for me —
The Carriage held but just Ourselves —
And Immortality.”

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