Emily Dickinson citáty

„Krása nie je spôsobená. Ona je.“

„Prineste mi západ slnka v pohári.“

„Ak čítam knihu a behajú mi po tele zimomriavky a žiaden oheň ma nemôže zahriať - Viem, že je to poézia.“

„Ak dokážem zachrániť aspoň jedno srdce pred zlomením, tak nebudem žiť nadarmo.“

„Prepáčte mi moju príčetnosť v šialenom svete.“

„To, že láska je všetko, je všetko, čo vieme o láske.“

„Ráno bez teba je ako miznúce svitanie.“

„Príroda je strašidelný dom - ale umenie je dom, ktorý sa snaží byť strašidelný.“

„Večnosť sa skladá z dnešných dní.“

„Duša by mala byť vždy otvorená - pripravená privítať extatický zážitok.“

„Nepoznám na svete nič iné, čo by malo toľko sily ako slovo. Niekedy napíšem jedno a pozerám sa naň, až kým nezačne žiariť.“

„Psy sú lepšie ako ľudské bytosti, pretože vedia, ale mlčia.“

„Moji priatelia sú mojím "majetkom".“

„Žiť je také zarážajúce, že na nič iné nezostáva čas.“

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

“A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”

“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS.”

“The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee…”

“Forever is composed of nows.”

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”

“This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me”

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

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

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”

“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”

“Love — thou art Veiled —
A few — behold thee —
Smile — and alter — and prattle — and die —
Bliss — were an Oddity — without thee —
Nicknamed by God —
Eternity”

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

“Because I could not stop for Death —
He kindly stopped for me —
The Carriage held but just Ourselves —
And Immortality.”

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”

“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.”

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”

“A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.”

“If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”

“Parting is all we know of Heaven,
and all we need of Hell.”

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

“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!”

“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.”

“Beauty is not caused. It is.”

“Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”