Emily Dickinson Quotes About Joy
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I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!
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For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.
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This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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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-.
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March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.
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A Letter is a Joy of Earth - It is denied the Gods
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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