712: Because I could not stop for Death —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Context: 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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“Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
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Barbara Kingsolver 119
American author, poet and essayist 1955Related quotes
“The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witchery of the soft blue sky!”
Part I, stanza 15.
Peter Bell (1798)
Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things