Emily Dickinson cytaty

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„Nadzieja ma skrzydła, przysiada w duszy i śpiewa pieśń bez słów, która nigdy nie ustaje, a jej najsłodsze dźwięki słychać nawet podczas wichury.”

„Nie miałam czasu na Nienawiść
Bo
Grób mi był Przegrodą —
Życie nie było
Dość pojemne —
Aby w nim zmieścić – Wrogość”

„Kochający nie mogą umrzeć, bo miłość jest nieśmiertelna.”

„Wspólna śliwka to nie śliwka. Miałam zbyt wiele respektu, aby zjeść miąższ, a pestek nie lubię.”

„Za każdą chwilę ekstazy musimy płacić drżący twardą walutą cierpienia.”

„Niebo – to, czego nie dosięgam!
Już jabłko na jabłoni —
Gdy Gałąź dłuższa niż Nadzieja —
Jest Niebem – dla mej Dłoni!”

„Nadzieja jest tym upierzonym
Stworzeniem na gałązce
Duszy – co śpiewa melodie
Bez słów i nie milknące”

“Dreams — are well — but Waking's better,
If One wake at Morn —
If One wake at Midnight — better —
Dreaming — of the Dawn”

“I died for Beauty — but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb,
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room —”

“He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty," I replied.
"And I — for Truth, — Themself are One —
We Brethren, are", He said —”

“Heart, we will forget him,

You and I, tonight!

You must forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light.”

“Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”

“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”

“Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.”

“PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to… to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.”

“I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.”

“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”

“I felt it shelter to speak to you.”

“A great hope fell
You heard no noise
The ruin was within.”

“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”

“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.”

“That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality”

“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.”

“But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.”

“An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.”

“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.”

“We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer —
Till it an Antique fashion shows —
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.”

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

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”

“A wounded dear leaps the highest”

“If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by,
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.”

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?”

“I must go in, the fog is rising.”