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.

I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves."

I cannot live with You --
It would be Life --
And Life is over there --
Behind the Shelf.

A great Hope fell
You heard no noise
The Ruin was within.

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."

"Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "An Uncommon Scold," by Abby Adams, 1989."
R:	""The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson," no. 640, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955."
A:	"c.1864, poem No. 1123, St. 1."
N:	""The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson," no. 341, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955."
K:	""The Chariot", poem no. 712."