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Emily Dickinson

American poet

1830–1886

37 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Nature and Emotion. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Letter to T. W. Higginson (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 380, no. 381
- Life & Death
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
Because I could not stop for Death (1890)In context
- Life & Death
I heard a fly buzz when I died
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died (1896)In context
- Life & Death
This is the hour of lead
Remembered if outlived
As freezing persons recollect
The snow⁠—
First chill, then stupor, then
The letting go.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes (1929)In context
- Emotion
- Life & Death
Since then ‘t is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses’ heads
Were toward eternity.
Because I could not stop for Death (1890)In context
- Life & Death
- Time
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.
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died (1896)In context
- Life & Death

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