Emily Dickinson on Christmas
1830–1886 United States
← All quotes by Emily Dickinson
4 quotes
Love is anterior to life,
Posterior to death,
Initial of creation, and
The exponent of breath.
Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God's residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.
We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer –
Till it an Antique fashion shows –
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.
The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.