Emily Dickinson: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 3)

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”

“I felt it shelter to speak to you.”

“A great hope fell
You heard no noise
The ruin was within.”

“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”

“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.”

“That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality”

“They might not need me; but they might.
I'll let my head be just in sight;
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.”

“But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.”

“An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”

“We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer —
Till it an Antique fashion shows —
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.”

“Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.”

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”

“A wounded dear leaps the highest”

“If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by,
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.”

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?”

“I must go in, the fog is rising.”