Emily Dickinson: Frasi in inglese (pagina 5)

“I have been bent and broken, but -I hope- into a better shape.”

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”

“in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.”

“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!”

“I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
"That must have been the sun!”

“"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see —
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.”

“I cannot live with you,
It would be life,
And life is over there
Behind the shelf”

“My best Acquaintances are those
With Whom I spoke no Word”

“To see her is a picture-
To hear her is a tune-
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June-
To know her not-Affliction-
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.”

“Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.”

“I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—
As if my Brain had split—
I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—
But could not make it fit.”

“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!”

“your brain is wider than the sky”

“Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.”

“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”

“My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.”

“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”

“Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.”

“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”