Emily Dickinson Soul Quotations

Narcotics cannot still the toothThat Nibbles at the soul

What fortitude the Soul contains, / That it can so endure / The accent of a coming Foot-- / The opening of a Door.

The Soul selects her own Society.

The Soul should always stand ajar.

The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.