The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-.
Weitere Zitate von Emily Dickinson
Zum Autor"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."
"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!"
"To be alive──is Power."
"The mere sense of living is joy enough."
"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."
"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!"