Emily Dickinson Quotes About Earth
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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
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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.
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Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.
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I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.
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All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.
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How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!
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Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth
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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
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Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true
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A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods
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