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Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

Emily Dickinson

Life, Thinking, Mind

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1006, Harvard University Press

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

Emily Dickinson

Mail, Mirth, Anguish

Emily Dickinson (2012). “The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.29, Modern Library

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

Emily Dickinson

Sky, Brain, Ease

Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.240, First Avenue Editions

When he tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is acquainted with grief, we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.

Emily Dickinson

Father, Grief, Home

Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.837, Harvard University Press

I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

Emily Dickinson

Yield, Hands, Bird

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.421, Harvard University Press

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

Emily Dickinson

Life, Work, Wife

Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.352, Harvard University Press

Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

Emily Dickinson

Beauty, Sight, Crowds

Emily Dickinson (1955). “Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts”, Belknap Press

He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

Emily Dickinson

Adversity, Suffering, Doom

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

Truth - is as old as God-.

Emily Dickinson

Truth, Truth Is

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1109, Delphi Classics

The abdication of Belief Makes the Behavior small- Better an ignis fatuus Than no illume at all.

Emily Dickinson

Abdication, Belief, Behavior

c.1882 Complete Poems, no.1551 (first published 1945).

To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!

Emily Dickinson

Simple, Needs, May

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Harvard University Press

We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

Emily Dickinson

Dream, Hurt, Drama

Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.408, Harvard University Press