Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Weitere Zitate von Emily Dickinson
Zum Autor"The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on."
"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!"
"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."
"Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sunIn Human Nature's West -."
"The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-."
"To be alive──is Power."