Emily Dickinson Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Happiness, Positivity

  "Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

• They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

• A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods

  Emily Dickinson

  Joy, Earth, Letters

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.807, Harvard University Press

• The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Past, Journey, Men

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1367, Harvard University Press

• To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Past, Joy

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.412, Harvard University Press

• March is the month of expectation,
  The things we do not know,
  The Persons of Prognostication
  Are coming now.
  We try to sham becoming firmness,
  But pompous joy
  Betrays us, as his first betrothal
  Betrays a boy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Boys, Expectations

  Emily Dickinson (1915). “The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime”

• This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

  Emily Dickinson

  Joy, Victory, Poverty

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.8, First Avenue Editions

• I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

  Emily Dickinson

  Grief, Feet, Joy

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.115, Harvard University Press

• For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Joy, Ecstatic Love

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.98, First Avenue Editions

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