After Emily Dickinson Quotes & Sayings

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control. — Juliette Lewis

I practice Dying--every night--
But have not learned to, still--
Though Talented--by Mortal bones--
For such a common Skill. — Alan W. Powers

The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-. — Emily Dickinson

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out. — John Glover

Not if Their Party were waiting,
Not if to talk with Me
Were to Them now, Homesickness
After Eternity. — Emily Dickinson

This dry definition, accurate as it is, does not fully suggest the importance of what it conveys. Since for us outside events do not exist unless we are aware of them, consciousness corresponds to subjectively experienced reality. While everything we feel, smell, hear, or remember is potentially a candidate for entering consciousness, the experiences that actually do become part of it are much fewer than those left out. Thus, while consciousness is a mirror that reflects what our senses tell us about what happens both outside our bodies and within the nervous system, it reflects those changes selectively, actively shaping events, imposing on them a reality of its own. The reflection consciousness provides is what we call our life: the sum of all we have heard, seen, felt, hoped, and suffered from birth to death. Although we believe that there are "things" outside consciousness, we have direct evidence only of those that find a place in it. As — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely. When you had gone the love came. I supposed it would. The supper of the heart is when the guest has gone. — Emily Dickinson

She wore her pain like lingerie, only who loved her enough, got to see it. — Himanshu Chhabra

Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled. — Emily Dickinson

We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go
Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow. — Emily Dickinson

He brought both hands up and said, You can speak the old-fashioned way. I can hear you, remember? I blinked at him and after a few seconds brought my hands up. If it's okay with you, I'd like to speak your language. I smiled a small smile. — Mia Sheridan

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force. — Eckhart Tolle

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress. — Phyllis Schlafly

Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas. — John Anthony West

Our little kinsmen after rain
In plenty may be seen,
a pink and pulpy multitude
The tepid ground upon;
A needless life if seemed to me
Until a little bird
As to a hospitality
Advanced and breakfasted. — Emily Dickinson

After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place,
Agony, that enacted there,
Motionless as peace. — Emily Dickinson

Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream. — Bryan Adams

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know. — Wendell Berry

Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated. — Albert Camus

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places. — Paul Theroux

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 — Emily Dickinson

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There's more beauty on Earth than I can bear. — Marilyn Nelson

This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness
they were he admitted to himself, an impulse towards flight, flight from the spot which was the daily theatre of a rigid, cold, and passionate service. — Thomas Mann

Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations. — Joshua Marston