A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

—Emily Dickinson

About Emily Dickinson

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes her as having "created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but...

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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons—That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes—

—Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.

—Emily Dickinson

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

—Emily Dickinson

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

—Emily Dickinson

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

—Emily Dickinson

More quotations tagged with “spring”

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.

—David Assael

If there comes a little thaw,

Still the air is chill and raw,

Here and there a patch of snow,

Dirtier than the ground below,

Dribbles down a marshy flood;

Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing,

"This is Spring.

—Christopher Pearce Cranch

[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.

—Christina Rossetti

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