Emily Dickinson: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 6)

“To shut your eyes is to travel.”

“They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.”

“A power of Butterfly must be -
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And easy Sweeps of Sky”

“I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep.
The day was warm, and winds were prosy;
I said: "'T will keep."

I woke and chid my honest fingers,—
The gem was gone;
And now an amethyst remembrance
Is all I own.”

“The Soul selects her own Society —
Then — shuts the Door —
To her divine Majority —
Present no more”

“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”

“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.”

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away…”

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”

“I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!”

“The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.”

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. Espousing the former is not defending the latter.”

“One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —
One need not be a House —
The Brain has Corridors — surpassing
Material Place”

“Inebriate of Air — am I —
And Debauchee of Dew —
Reeling — thro endless summer days —
From Inns of Molten Blue”

“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.”

“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”

“If your Nerve, deny you
Go above your Nerve”

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”