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”

“I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—
As if my Brain had split—
I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—
But could not make it fit.”

“Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.

When you have done, pray tell me,
That I my thoughts may dim;
Haste! lest while you're lagging,
I may remember him!”

“your brain is wider than the sky”

“Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.”

“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”

“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.”

“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”

“Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.”

“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”

“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.”

“To shut your eyes is to travel.”

“They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.”

“A power of Butterfly must be -
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And easy Sweeps of Sky”

“I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep.
The day was warm, and winds were prosy;
I said: "'T will keep."

I woke and chid my honest fingers,—
The gem was gone;
And now an amethyst remembrance
Is all I own.”

“The Soul selects her own Society —
Then — shuts the Door —
To her divine Majority —
Present no more”

“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”

“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.”

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away…”

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”

“I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!”

“The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.”

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. Espousing the former is not defending the latter.”

“One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —
One need not be a House —
The Brain has Corridors — surpassing
Material Place”

“Inebriate of Air — am I —
And Debauchee of Dew —
Reeling — thro endless summer days —
From Inns of Molten Blue”

“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.”

“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”

“If your Nerve, deny you
Go above your Nerve”

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”