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Quotes About Wonder

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.
~ Emily Dickinson
Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?
~ Emily Dickinson
Whose fingers string the stalactite- Who counts the Wampum of the night
~ Emily Dickinson
In lands I never saw, they say, Immortal Alps look down, Whose bonnets touch the firmament, Whose sandals touch the town, ? Meek at whose everlasting feet A myriad daisies play. Which, sir, are you, and which am I. Upon an August day?
~ Emily Dickinson
Split the Lark—and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled.
~ Emily Dickinson
A little road not made of man, Enabled of the eye, Accessible to thill of bee, Or cart of butterfly. If town it have, beyond itself, 'T is that I cannot say; I only sigh,—no vehicle Bears me along that way.
~ Emily Dickinson
Solo busco una vida que dejé, ¿sigue ahí todavía?»
~ Emily Dickinson
Chi conta le conchiglie nella notte per vedere che non ne manchi nessuna?
~ Emily Dickinson
SUMMER SHOWER. A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook, That went to help the sea. Myself conjectured, Were they pearls, What necklaces could be! The dust replaced in hoisted roads, The birds jocoser sung; The sunshine threw his hat away, The orchards spangles hung. The breezes brought dejected lutes, And bathed them in the glee; The East put out a single flag, And signed the fete away.
~ Emily Dickinson
Counts his nectars — enters, And is lost in balms!
~ Emily Dickinson
Hace unos cuantos días perdí un mundo, ¿no lo ha encontrado nadie? Lo reconoceréis por una sarta de estrellas que le ciñen la cabeza.
~ Emily Dickinson
I don't know which it is - I only know that when you shall come back again, the Earth will seem more beautiful, and bigger than it does now, and the blue sky from the window will be all dotted with gold - though it may not be evening, or time for the stars to come.
~ Emily Dickinson
Non è necessario essere una stanza o una casa per essere stregata. Il cervello ha corridoi che vanno oltre gli spazi materiali.
~ Emily Dickinson
When bumble-bees in solemn flight
~ Emily Dickinson
Split the lark and you'll find the music
~ Emily Dickinson
The meteor of birds
~ Emily Dickinson
Somebody flings a mattress out, — The children hurry by; They wonder if It died on that
~ Emily Dickinson
Solo busco una vida que dejé, ¿sigue ahí todavía?
~ Emily Dickinson
Will there really be a Morning? Is there such a thing as Day? Could I see it from the mountains If I were as tall as they? Has it feet like Water lilies? Has it feathers like a Bird? Is it brought from famous countries Of which I have never heard? Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor! Oh some Wise Men from the skies! Please to tell a little Pilgrim Where the place called Morning lies!
~ Emily Dickinson
Some things that fly there be, — Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:
~ Emily Dickinson
First of all, it's impossible not to compare. When you go down a fork in a road, it's impossible not to think about that other path. Wonder what your life could have been like…
~ Emily Giffin
It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there because we don't know the secret code, but it's real all the same. Before I didn't know to be mad that we can't open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it.
~ Emma Donoghue
Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live.
~ Emma Donoghue
All I think when I look at you is hallelujah
~ Emma Donoghue