Emily Dickinson Quotes about Feelings

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Emily Dickinson

Pain, Feelings, Literature

'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

Emily Dickinson

Feelings, Pockets, Safe

Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.167, Harvard University Press