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There is no frigate like a book

There is no frigate like a book

Emily Dickinson
Book
"There is no frigate like a book" l. 1 (ca. 1873)

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

Emily Dickinson
Ambition, Desire, May
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.288, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

Emily Dickinson
Suffering, Age, Tests
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.355, Harvard University Press

The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.

Emily Dickinson
Hands, Paradise, Wide
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Wish, Ears
Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.101, Heinemann

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

Emily Dickinson
Love Is, Emblems, Trembling
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.594, Harvard University Press

The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

Emily Dickinson
Spring, Flower, Spring Flowers
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.135, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

Emily Dickinson
Lying, Congratulations, Deceit
c.1868 Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published 1945).

God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

Emily Dickinson
Jealous, Play, Envy
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2001, Delphi Classics

My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?

Emily Dickinson

A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.

Emily Dickinson
Spring, Light, Years
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1084, Delphi Classics

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Fashion, Antiques
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1160, Delphi Classics

Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.

Emily Dickinson
Light, Clicks

The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

Emily Dickinson
Nature, Flower, Careers
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.505, Harvard University Press

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

Emily Dickinson
Strength, Weakness, Artifice
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.461, Harvard University Press

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!

Emily Dickinson
Nature, Kings, Spring
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -

Emily Dickinson
Men, Speech, Silent Man
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.315, Harvard University Press

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

Emily Dickinson
Sea, Water, Being Positive
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.362, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

Emily Dickinson
Philosophy, Wings, Dresses
Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.83, Heinemann

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

Emily Dickinson
Men, Fellow Man, Ecstasy
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1464, Harvard University Press

It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

Emily Dickinson
Crazy, Thinking, Wish

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

Emily Dickinson
Nature, Smart, Butterfly
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.27, Harvard University Press

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Heaven, Earth
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.244, Harvard University Press

Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.

Emily Dickinson
Fall, Life Is, Wilderness
Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.283, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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

Emily Dickinson
Common Sense, Profound, Words Of Wisdom

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