Emily Dickinson Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sad, Dream, Bread

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.288, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

• Dreams are the subtle Dower
  That make us rich an Hour
  Then fling us poor
  Out of the purple door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Doors, Purple

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

• 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

• And you dropt, lost,
  When something broke--
  And let you from a Dream

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Broke, Lost

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.196, Harvard University Press

• The revery alone will do
  If bees are few.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Bees, Pollination

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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