Emily Dickinson Quotes about Past

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The past is not a package one can lay away.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

Emily Dickinson

Past, Packages, Lays

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2381, Delphi Classics

The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.

Emily Dickinson

Past, Looks, May

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

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

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

Emily Dickinson

Food, Past, Men

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

Emily Dickinson

Past, Journey, Men

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1367, Harvard University Press

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

Emily Dickinson

Life, Past, Sea

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.72, Harvard University Press