Emily Dickinson citations célèbres
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson: Citations en anglais
“A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward. Quoted in "The Conscious Self in Emily Dickinson's Poetry" by Charles A. Anderson: American Literature, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Nov. 1959), pp. 290-308.
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
453: Love — thou art high —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
Variante: Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
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712: Because I could not stop for Death —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Contexte: p>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 labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility —
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“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.”
1333: A little Madness in the Spring
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870), letter #342a of The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward, page 474
Source: Selected Letters