Emily Dickinson: Quotes about life

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“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 Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 6
Collected Poems (1993)

“Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Love, p. 167
Collected Poems (1993)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I tasted life.”

Emily Dickinson

“The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.”

Emily Dickinson

“I cannot live with you,
It would be life,
And life is over there
Behind the shelf”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.”

Emily Dickinson

Source: Dickinson: Poems

“A death-blow is a life-blow to some
Who, till they died, did not alive become;
Who, had they lived, had died, but when
They died, vitality begun.”

Emily Dickinson

Time and Eternity, p. 204
Collected Poems (1993)

“Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the culprit,—Life!”

Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —

Life, p. 25
Collected Poems (1993)

“I took one Draught of Life —
I'll tell you what I paid —
Precisely an existence —
The market price, they said.”

Emily Dickinson I took one Draught of Life

1725: I took one Draught of Life —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —
In Corners — till a Day
The Owner passed — identified —
And carried Me away —

And now We roam in Sovereign Woods —
And now We hunt the Doe —
And every time I speak for Him —
The Mountains straight reply —”

Emily Dickinson My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun

754: My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)