Emily Dickinson Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

• We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—

  Emily Dickinson

  Crush, Flower, Moving

  Emily Dickinson (2006). “The World in a Frame”, p.80, Pomegranate

• If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sympathy, Pain, Kindness

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

• The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Doe, Care

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.405, Harvard University Press

• I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Romantic, Summer

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.201, Harvard University Press

• Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

  Emily Dickinson

  Women, Heart, Portraits

• Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Heart, Night

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

• The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

  Emily Dickinson

  Morning, Grief, Heart

  'The Bustle in a House' (c.1866)

• Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him!

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Night, Light

  Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale (2018). “Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

• 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? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

  Emily Dickinson

  Letting Go, Pain, Heart

  'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

• The Heart asks Pleasure--first--
  And then--Excuse from Pain

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Heart, Firsts

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.11, First Avenue Editions

• Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

  Emily Dickinson

  Hope, Heart, Patents

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1672, Delphi Classics

• September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fun, Heart, Crow

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.516, Harvard University Press

• Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sweet, Heart, Snow

  Emily Dickinson (1955). “Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts”, Belknap Press

• Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Broken, May

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.679, Harvard University Press

• The Life we have is very great.
  The Life that we shall see
  Surpasses it, we know, because
  It is Infinity,
  But when all Space has been beheld
  And all Dominion shown
  The smallest Human Heart's extent
  Reduces it to none.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Heart, Space

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.707, Harvard University Press

• Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Light, Tonight

  Emily Dickinson, “Heart, We Will Forget Him”

• The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Voice, Atheism

• When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Heart, Different

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

• An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Wish, Ears

  Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.101, Heinemann

• But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Heart, Pulse

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.756, Harvard University Press

• Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

  Emily Dickinson

  Writing, Heart, And Love

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.77, Harvard University Press

• They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.

  Emily Dickinson

  Home, Heart, Thinking

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.324, Harvard University Press

• The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Mind, Together

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.529, Harvard University Press

• The heart asks pleasure first,
  And then, excuse from pain;
  And then, those little anodynes
  That deaden suffering;
  And then, to go to sleep;
  And then, if it should be
  The will of its Inquisitor,
  The liberty to die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Heart, Sleep

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.11, First Avenue Editions

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