People/D
The quotations of
American poet
1830–1886
37 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Nature and Emotion. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.
I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.
I felt a funeral in my brain, And mourners, to and fro, Kept treading, treading, till it seemed That sense was breaking through.
‘T is the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; Demur,—you’re straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain.
I taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol!
Since then ‘t is centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses’ heads Were toward eternity.
How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Emily Dickinson1830–1886Emily Dickinson1830–1886
