Emily Dickinson Spring Quotes

How glad I am that spring has come, and how it calms my mind when wearied with study to walk out in the green fields and beside the pleasant streams in which South Hadley is rich! ... The older I grow, the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it not so with you? (May 16, 1848 to Abiah Root) ~ Emily Dickinson

If I dismiss the ordinary - waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life ... To allow ourselves to spend afternoons watching dancers rehearse, or sit on a stone wall and watch the sunset, or spend the whole weekend rereading Chekhov stories - to know that we are doing what we're supposed to be doing - is the deepest form of permission in our creative lives. The British author and psychologist Adam Phillips has noted, 'When we are inspired, rather like when we are in love, we can feel both unintelligible to ourselves and most truly ourselves.' This is the feeling I think we all yearn for, a kind of hyperreal dream state. We read Emily Dickinson. We watch the dancers. We research a little known piece of history obsessively. We fall in love. We don't know why, and yet these moments form the source from which all our words will spring. ~ Dani Shapiro

An altered look about the hills;
A Tyrian light the village fills;
A wider sunrise in the dawn;
A deeper twilight on the lawn;
A print of a vermilion foot;
A purple finger on the slope;
A flippant fly upon the pane;
A spider at his trade again;
An added strut in chanticleer;
A flower expected everywhere ... ~ Emily Dickinson

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown,
Who ponders this tremendous scene
This whole experiment in green,
As if it were his own! ~ Emily Dickinson

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience. ~ Emily Dickinson

I have a Bird in spring
Which for myself doth sing -
The spring decoys.
And as the summer nears -
And as the Rose appears,
Robin is gone.
Yet do I not repine
Knowing that Bird of mine
Though flown -
Learneth beyond the sea
Melody new for me
And will return. ~ Emily Dickinson

Spring is the Period
Express from God.
Among the other seasons
Himself abide,
But during March and April
None stir abroad
Without a cordial interview
With God. ~ Emily Dickinson

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

Beauty crowds me till I die." Emily Dickinson ~ Emily Dickinson

There are depths in every Consciousness, from which we cannot rescue ourselves - to which none can go with us. ~ Emily Dickinson

There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it. ~ Emily Dickinson

Your absence insanes me so
I do not feel so peaceful, when you are gone from me. ~ Emily Dickinson

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. ~ Emily Dickinson

Who loves you most, and loves you best, and thinks of you when others rest? 'Tis Emilie. ~ Emily Dickinson

There is no Frigate like a book. ~ Emily Dickinson

God, keep me from what they call 'households,' ~ Emily Dickinson

The whole of Immortality
Secreted by a star. ~ Emily Dickinson

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom. ~ Emily Dickinson

I must go in, the fog is rising. ~ Emily Dickinson

We turn not older with years but newer every day. ~ Emily Dickinson

…it perished with beautiful reluctance, like an evening star - ~ Emily Dickinson

Drowning is not so pitiful as the attempt to rise. ~ Emily Dickinson

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself. ~ Emily Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close ~ Emily Dickinson

The only secret people keep is immortality. ~ Emily Dickinson

I would have drowned twice to save you sinking, dear. ~ Emily Dickinson

And through a Riddle, at the last--
Sagacity, must go-- ~ Emily Dickinson

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye ... ~ Emily Dickinson

A wounded dear leaps the highest ~ Emily Dickinson

So few that live have life ... ~ Emily Dickinson

To be alive--is Power. ~ Emily Dickinson

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it. ~ Emily Dickinson

We grow accustomed to the dark when light is put away
~ Emily Dickinson

A Word that Breathes Distinctly
Has not the Power to Die ~ Emily Dickinson

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~ Emily Dickinson

I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more. ~ Emily Dickinson

Hope is a thing with feathers... ~ Emily Dickinson

A wounded deer leaps the highest ~ Emily Dickinson

So we must keep apart, You there, I here, With just the door ajar ~ Emily Dickinson

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself. ~ Emily Dickinson

I've got a Tomahawk in my side but that don't hurt me much. ~ Emily Dickinson

He danced along the dingy days, and this bequest of wings was but a book. ~ Emily Dickinson

Water, is taught by thirst. ~ Emily Dickinson

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety. ~ Emily Dickinson

Hope ... never stops at all. ~ Emily Dickinson

Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled. ~ Emily Dickinson

Sweet hour, blessed hour, to carry me to you, and to bring you back to me, long enough to snatch one kiss, and whisper goodbye again. ~ Emily Dickinson

I believe in possibility. ~ Emily Dickinson

My business is circumference. ~ Emily Dickinson

My Country is Truth. ~ Emily Dickinson

How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door ... ~ Emily Dickinson

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead. ~ Emily Dickinson

One need not be a chamber to be haunted. ~ Emily Dickinson

Though it may never come again is what makes it so sweet. ~ Emily Dickinson

We all have moments with the dust, but the dew is given. ~ Emily Dickinson

Consciousness is the only home of which we know. ~ Emily Dickinson

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear. ~ Emily Dickinson

The Ocean's Heart too Smooth - too Blue -
To break for you. ~ Emily Dickinson

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest. ~ Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ~ Emily Dickinson

If I wasn't a perfect woman, I'd bust you in the nose. ~ Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.

Das 'Für immer' besteht aus vielen 'jetzt'. ~ Emily Dickinson

Tell all the truth but tell it slant. ~ Emily Dickinson

A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides ~ Emily Dickinson

Opinion is a flitting thing, but the truth outlasts the sun. ~ Emily Dickinson

The minister goes stiffly in As if the house were his, ~ Emily Dickinson

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. ~ Emily Dickinson

There is nothing more fugal than a book
to take you to different lands ~ Emily Dickinson

For you know we do not mind our dress
When we are going home ~ Emily Dickinson

Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured. ~ Emily Dickinson

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - . ~ Emily Dickinson

The second half of joy is shorter than the first ~ Emily Dickinson

The will is always near, dear, though the feet vary. ~ Emily Dickinson

The only Commandment I ever obeyed - 'Consider the Lilies. ~ Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. ~ Emily Dickinson

That Love is all there is
Is all we know of Love,
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove. ~ Emily Dickinson

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. ~ Emily Dickinson

The hearts that never lean must fall. ~ Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. ~ Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~ Emily Dickinson

Bring me the sunset in a cup. ~ Emily Dickinson

Love is Immortality. ~ Emily Dickinson

XVI. Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit, - Life! ~ Emily Dickinson

Noon - is the Hinge of Day - ... ~ Emily Dickinson

Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself. ~ Emily Dickinson

Whose fingers string the stalactite-
Who counts the Wampum of the night ~ Emily Dickinson

Lad of Athens, faithful be
To thyself,
And Mystery -
All the rest is Perjury ~ Emily Dickinson

All but Death, can be Adjusted -
Dynasties repaired -
Systems - settled in their Sockets -
Citadels dissolved . . . ~ Emily Dickinson

Eternity, Presumption
The instant I perceive
That you who were Existence
Yourself forgot to live ~ Emily Dickinson

Till I loved I never liked enough. ~ Emily Dickinson

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ~ Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody, who are you? ~ Emily Dickinson

Till I loved I never lived. ~ Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers ~ Emily Dickinson

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself. ~ Emily Dickinson

The Soul selects her own Society. ~ Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar. ~ Emily Dickinson

To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim
~ Emily Dickinson

And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail! ~ Emily Dickinson

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look. ~ Emily Dickinson