A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
Weitere Zitate von Emily Dickinson
Zum Autor"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"
"The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-."
"To be alive──is Power."
"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."
"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."
"So bashful when I spied her!So pretty ― so ashamed!So hidden in her leafletsLest anybody find ―So breathless till I passed her ―So helpless when I turnedAnd bore her struggling, blushing,Her simple haunts beyond!For whom I robbed the Dingle ―For whom betrayed the Dell ―Many, will doubtless ask me,But I shall never tell!"