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.
There’s a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.
After great pain a formal feeling comes— The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs; The stiff Heart questions—was it He that bore? And yesterday—or centuries before?
This is the hour of lead Remembered if outlived As freezing persons recollect The snow— First chill, then stupor, then The letting go.
I felt a funeral in my brain, And mourners, to and fro, Kept treading, treading, till it seemed That sense was breaking through.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886
