Emily Dickinson Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• We turn not older with years but newer every day.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

• Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

  Emily Dickinson

  Age, Aging, Old Age

• They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

  Emily Dickinson

  Suffering, Age, Tests

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.355, Harvard University Press

• We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Hurt, Drama

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.408, Harvard University Press

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