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The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Doe, Care
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.405, Harvard University Press

Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

Emily Dickinson
Writing, Heart, And Love
Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.77, Harvard University Press

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Light, Tonight
Emily Dickinson, “Heart, We Will Forget Him”

After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

Emily Dickinson
Letting Go, Pain, Heart
'After great pain, a formal feeling comes' (1862)

The hearts that never lean must fall.

Emily Dickinson
Fall, Heart
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2286, Delphi Classics

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

Emily Dickinson
Life, Heart, Night
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

Emily Dickinson
Pain, Passion, Heart
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

Emily Dickinson
Pain, Heart, Firsts
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.11, First Avenue Editions

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

Emily Dickinson
Book, Heart, Pulse
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.756, Harvard University Press

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

Emily Dickinson
Hope, Heart, Patents
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1672, Delphi Classics

Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

Emily Dickinson
Women, Heart, Portraits

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

The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose interest in heavenly things. Friends reasoned with me & told me of the danger I was in. I felt my danger & was alarmed, but I had rambled too far to return & ever since my heart has been growing harder.

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Voice, Atheism

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

Emily Dickinson
Morning, Grief, Heart
'The Bustle in a House' (c.1866)

They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.

Emily Dickinson
Home, Heart, Thinking
Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.324, Harvard University Press

The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Reduces it to none.

Emily Dickinson
Life, Heart, Space
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.707, Harvard University Press

Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him!

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Night, Light
Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale (2018). “Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.

Emily Dickinson
Love, Heart, Different
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.

Emily Dickinson
Pain, Heart, Sleep
Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.11, First Avenue Editions

September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets - Crows - and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze That hints without assuming - An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.

Emily Dickinson
Fun, Heart, Crow
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.516, Harvard University Press

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Broken, May
Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.679, Harvard University Press

Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.

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

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

Emily Dickinson
Heart, Mind, Together
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.529, Harvard University Press

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