Emily Dickinson Quotes About Faith

Quotes about: Faith

• Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Bridges, Scene

  c.1864 Complete Poems, no.915 (first published 1929).

• Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Knowledge, Science

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.185 (first published 1891).

• I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Sea, Heaven

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.343, Harvard University Press

• My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Flower, Purple

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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