Emily Dickinson Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• I dwell in possibility.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Recovery, Addiction

  "I dwell in possibility" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

• Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson (1986). “Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet”, George Braziller

• One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

  Emily Dickinson

  Halloween, House, Brain

  c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).

• Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Eden, House

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1131, Harvard University Press

• A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Butterfly, Air

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.36, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

• You don't have to be a house to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  House

• One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Self, House, Brain

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.184, 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)

• 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

• Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Horse, Children, School

  'Because I could not stop for Death' (c.1863)

• Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Past, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.72, Harvard University Press

• I dwell in Possibility
  A fairer House than Prose
  More numerous of Windows
  Superior--for Doors
  Of Chambers as the Cedars
  Impregnable of Eye
  And for an Everlasting Roof
  The Gambrels of the Sky
  Of Visitors--the fairest
  For Occupation--This
  The spreading wide my narrow Hands
  To gather Paradise

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Doors, Hands

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

• I know some lonely houses off the road
  A robber'd like the look of,--
  Wooden barred,
  And windows hanging low

  Emily Dickinson

  Lonely, House, Looks

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.14, First Avenue Editions

• I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose.

  Emily Dickinson

  House, Possibility, Prose

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• I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors.

  Emily Dickinson

  Doors, House, Window

  "I dwell in possibility" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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