Emily Dickinson: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 4)

“I tasted life.”

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”

“The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.”

“She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.”

“Who has not found the Heaven — below —
Will fail of it above”

“My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?”

“Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
’T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.”

“Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.”

“He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!”

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.”

“Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.”

“The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.”

“That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.”

“There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.”

“Dying is a wild night and a new road.”

“My friends are my "estate."”

“To be alive──is Power.”

“They say that God is everywhere and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse.”

“The brain is wider than the sky,
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include
With ease, and you beside.”