Emily Dickinson Quotes about Pain

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If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Sympathy, Pain, Kindness

"If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

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)

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)

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

You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

Emily Dickinson

Time, Pain, Sea

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.319, 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

There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.

Emily Dickinson

Pain, Memories, Steps

Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Alfred Leete Hampson (1929). “Further poems of Emily Dickinson: withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia”

Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.

Emily Dickinson

Pain, Past, Elements

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.719, Harvard University Press

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

Emily Dickinson Quotes about Pain

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