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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

Emily Dickinson
Sailor, Needles, Knows
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.175, Harvard University Press

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

Emily Dickinson
Awe
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics

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

Emily Dickinson
Hope, Noise, Ruins
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1029, Harvard University Press

Hope is a thing with feathers

Emily Dickinson
Feathers

Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true

Emily Dickinson
Knights, Heaven, Earth
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.15, Harvard University Press

Hope . . . never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

Emily Dickinson
Lilies, Commandments
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson (1958). “The letters”, Belknap Press

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson
Inspirational, Life, Halloween
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson
Tragedy, Literature, Bees
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Emily Dickinson
Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.475, Harvard University Press

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

Emily Dickinson
Sunrise

I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.

Emily Dickinson
Sweet, Thinking, Heaven
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2417, Delphi Classics

I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.

Emily Dickinson
Running, Years, Feet
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.829, Delphi Classics

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Life, Arguing
Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.420, Harvard University Press

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

Emily Dickinson
Death, Near Death
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.74, First Avenue Editions

Action is redemption.

Emily Dickinson
Redemption, Action
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2310, Delphi Classics

Remorse is memory awake.

Emily Dickinson
Memories, Awake, Remorse
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.119, First Avenue Editions

Pain has an element of blank

Emily Dickinson
Pain, Elements, Blank
Emily Dickinson (2006). “Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete”, p.18, Lulu.com

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

Emily Dickinson
Jest, Dare, Knows
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1506, Harvard University Press

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

Emily Dickinson
Life, Would Be, Shelves
c.1862 Complete Poems, no.640 (first published 1890).

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

Emily Dickinson
Summer, Nature, Lying
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1309, Harvard University Press

I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.

Emily Dickinson
Dark, Light, Needs
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.222, Harvard University Press

Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.

Emily Dickinson
Share, Ecstasy, Asks

I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.

Emily Dickinson
Eye, Glasses, Hair
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.241, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

Emily Dickinson
Dark, Thinking, Forever

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