艾米丽·狄金森生前是一位隐士，她写了一些诗歌，这些诗歌是她私人的，除了少数例外，直到她死后才被发现。

艾米丽·狄金森语录精选

这是我写给世界的信

This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me, The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty. Her message is committed, To hands I cannot see; For love of her, sweet countrymen, Judge tenderly of me.

如果我能阻止一颗心破碎

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

短引号

•我们遇到的不是陌生人，而是我们自己

•灵魂应始终半开着。准备好迎接狂喜的体验。

•生活是如此令人震惊，几乎没有时间做其他事情。

•我相信上帝的爱可能被教导不要看起来像熊。

•灵魂选择自己的社会

我是无名小卒！你是谁？

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

我们永远不知道自己有多高

We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies. The heroism we recite Would be a daily thing, Did not ourselves the cubits warp For fear to be a king.

没有一艘护卫舰比得上一本书

There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul!

成功被认为是最甜蜜的

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear.

有些人坚持安息日去教堂

Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome. Some keep the Sabbath in surplice; I just wear my wings, And instead of tolling the bell for church, Our little sexton sings. God preaches, — a noted clergyman, — And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I’m going all along!

大脑比天空还宽

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. The brain is deeper than the sea, For, hold them, blue to blue, The one the other will absorb, As sponges, buckets do. The brain is just the weight of God, For, lift them, pound for pound, And they will differ, if they do, As syllable from sound.

“信仰”是一个很好的发明

"Faith" is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see — But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.

信仰：变体

Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

希望是有羽毛的东西

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

用慈祥的目光回顾时光

Look back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature’s west!

害怕的我怕谁？

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death; for who is he? The porter of my father’s lodge As much abasheth me. Of life? ‘T were odd I fear a thing That comprehendeth me In one or more existences At Deity’s decree. Of resurrection? Is the east Afraid to trust the morn With her fastidious forehead? As soon impeach my crown!

死亡的权利可以被认为是

The right to perish might be thought An undisputed right, Attempt it, and the Universe upon the opposite Will concentrate its officers — You cannot even die, But Nature and Mankind must pause To pay you scrutiny.

爱比生命重要

Love — is anterior to Life — Posterior — to Death — Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth.

她生活的最后一夜

The last night that she lived, It was a common night, Except the dying; this to us Made nature different. We noticed smallest things, — Things overlooked before, By this great light upon our minds Italicized, as ’t were. That others could exist While she must finish quite, A jealousy for her arose So nearly infinite. We waited while she passed; It was a narrow time, Too jostled were our souls to speak, At length the notice came. She mentioned, and forgot; Then lightly as a reed Bent to the water, shivered scarce, Consented, and was dead. And we, we placed the hair, And drew the head erect; And then an awful leisure was, Our faith to regulate.

一言不发

A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.

短选

•关于“避开男人和女人”——他们大声谈论神圣的事情——让我的狗难堪——他和我不反对他们，如果他们愿意站在他们一边的话。我想卡洛会取悦你的——他既笨又勇敢——我想你会喜欢我散步时遇到的那棵栗树。它突然引起了我的注意——我以为天空正在开花-

•对于我的同伴们——小山——先生——和日落——还有一条狗——和我父亲给我买的一样大——他们比人类更好——因为他们知道——但不会告诉我。

•在我身后-浸入永恒-在我面前-不朽-我自己-两者之间的术语-

•1861年，苏珊·吉尔伯特·狄金森对艾米莉·狄金森说：“如果一只夜莺用胸脯顶着荆棘唱歌，我们为什么不唱呢？”

因为我不能停下来等待死亡

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played At wrestling in a ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then ’t is centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses’ heads Were toward eternity.

我的生命在结束之前关闭了两次。或者，我们所知道的天堂只有离别

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

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