Creative Quotations from Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886) born on Dec 10

US poet. She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.

A Deed knocks first at Thought
And then -- it knocks at Will --
That is the manufacturing spot.

A Wounded deer - leaps highest.

"Assent--and you are sane--,
Demur--you're straightway dangerous--,
And handled with a Chain--."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"From "Journey in Word," ed. Cyndi Craven; an internet collection of quotations."
R:	"1875; "The Single Hound," 19I4."
A:	"c. 1872, poem no. 1212, in toto."
N:	"1860; "Poems, First Series," 1890."
K:	""The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson," no. 435, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955."