01
“To be alive──is Power.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
life
ᐧ
power
concepts
02
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
truth
concept
03
“If certain, when this life was out, That yours and mine should be, I ’d toss it yonder like a rind, And taste eternity.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
love
ᐧ
death
concepts
04
“Now, when I read, I read not,For interrupting tearsObliterate the etchingsToo costly for repairs.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
reading
concept
05
“I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, eyes –I wonder if It weighs like Mine –Or has an Easier size.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
grief
concept
06
“Water is taught by thirst;Land, by the oceans passed;Transport, by throe;Peace, by its battles told;Love, by memorial mould;Birds, by the snow.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
learning
concept
07
“Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
08
“To see the Summer SkyIs Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—True Poems flee—”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
poems
concept
09
“Not with a club, the Heart is brokenNor with a Stone –A Whip so small you could not see itI’ve known”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
love
concept
10
“Why joys so scantily disburse,Why Paradise defer,Why floods are served to us in bowls,—I speculate no more.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
happiness
ᐧ
suffering
concepts
11
“The Carriage held but just Ourselves –And Immortality.”
Emily Dickenson
author
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
book
death
concept
12
“The Soul selects her own Society.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
friendship
concept
13
“Success is counted sweetestBy those who ne’er succeed.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
success
ᐧ
failure
concepts
14
“The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
judgement
ᐧ
bees
concepts
15
“Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
heaven
concept
16
“We slowly drove – He knew no haste”
Emily Dickenson
author
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
book
death
concept
17
“It might be lonelierWithout the Loneliness”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
loneliness
concept
18
“The Brain is deeper than the sea”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
brain
concept
19
“While I was fearing it, it came,But came with less of fear,Because that fearing it so longHad almost made it dear.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
fear
concept
20
“Because I could not stop for Death.”
Emily Dickenson
author
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
book
death
concept
21
“I am not used to Hope —It might intrude upon —Its sweet parade — blaspheme the place —Ordained to Suffering —”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
22
“I started early, took my dog,And visited the sea;The mermaids in the basem*ntCame out to look at me”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
the ocean
ᐧ
mermaids
concepts
23
“In a serener Bright, In a more golden light I see Each little doubt and fear, Each little discord here Removed.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
fear
ᐧ
doubts
concepts
24
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
nature
concept
25
“Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
hoping
concept
26
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
love
concept
27
“I dwell in Possibility –A fairer House than Prose –More numerous of Windows –Superior – for Doors –”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
choices
concept
28
“If you were coming in the fall,I’d brush the summer by”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
love
ᐧ
fall
concepts
29
“The brain has corridors surpassingMaterial place.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
brain
concept
30
“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
adventures
ᐧ
success
ᐧ
failure
concepts
31
“Earth is crammed with Heaven.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
life
ᐧ
heaven
concepts
32
“The moon was but a chin of goldA night or two ago,And now she turns her perfect faceUpon the world below.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
moon
concept
33
″‘Tis harder knowing it is due,Than knowing it is here.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
fear
concept
34
“Death is like the insect Menacing the tree, Competent to kill it, But decoyed may be.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
death
concept
35
“Then I will not repineKnowing that bird of mineThough flown shall in a distant treeBright melody for meReturn.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
birds
concept
36
“For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
happiness
ᐧ
suffering
concepts
37
“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.”
Emily Dickenson
author
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
book
leaving
concept
38
“As he handed it to me, I saw he’d gripped it so tightly his knuckles had turned white. We were not the kissing kind, me and Pa, but I wished that maybe he would at least hug me good-bye.”
Emily Dickenson
author
A Northern Light
book
Mathilda Gokey
character
fathers and daughters
ᐧ
emotional distance
ᐧ
family relationships
ᐧ
leave the nest
concepts
39
“Why isn’t real life like book life?” I asked, sitting down next to him. “Why aren’t people plain and uncomplicated? Why don’t they do what you expect them to do, like characters in a novel?” I took my shoes and stockings off and dangled my feet in the water, too.
Emily Dickenson
author
A Northern Light
book
Mathilda Gokey
character
books
ᐧ
understand humans
ᐧ
complicated
concepts
40
“And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn’t have written even one poem if she’d had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for.”
Emily Dickenson
ᐧ
Jennifer Donnelly
authors
A Northern Light
book
Mathilda Gokey
character
need to write
ᐧ
motherhood
ᐧ
writer
concepts