Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One Quotes

“The Ocean’s Heart too Smooth - too Blue -
To break for you.”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“Look back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“My river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I'll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks, — Say, sea, Take me!”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“THE MYSTERY OF PAIN. Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“SUMMER SHOWER. A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook, That went to help the sea. Myself conjectured, Were they pearls, What necklaces could be! The dust replaced in hoisted roads, The birds jocoser sung; The sunshine threw his hat away, The orchards spangles hung. The breezes brought dejected lutes, And bathed them in the glee; The East put out a single flag, And signed the fete away.”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“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.”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One

“The quiet nonchalance of death
No daybreak can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.”
― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One