Emily Dickinson on Mental Models Quotes

"The Soul selects her own Society— / Then—shuts the Door— / To her divine Majority— / Present no more—"

"The Sailor cannot see the North / But knows the Needle can—"

"A Plank in Reason, broke, / And I dropped down, and down— / And hit a World, at every plunge,"

"Finite to fail, but infinite to Venture— / For the rest / To be a Sea is greater than to Build / A Ship—"

"The Possible's slow fuse is lit / By the Imagination"

"Water, is taught by thirst. / Land—by the Oceans passed. / Transport—by throe— / Peace—by its battles told—"

"I dwell in Possibility— / A fairer House than Prose— / More numerous of Windows— / Superior—for Doors—"

"To wait, is Happiness—to wait / Is better than to find"

"Faith is a fine invention / For Gentlemen who see! / But Microscopes are prudent / In an Emergency."

"Growth of Man like Growth of Nature / Gravitates within—"

"To fill a Gap / Insert the Thing that caused it— / Do not patch it with a Mind / Other than the one that produced it—"

"The Way Hope builds his House / It is not with a Stone—"

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant— / Success in Circuit lies"

"The Mind is so near itself—it cannot see, / Distinctly—and it is—"

"The Soul should always stand ajar / That if the Heaven inquire / He will not be obliged to wait / Or the Divinity of Fire"

"The Heart asks Pleasure—first— / And then—Excuse from Pain— / And then—those little Anodynes / That deaden suffering—"

"The Outer—from the Inner / Derives its Magnitude—"

"Nature is a Haunted House--but Art--is a House that tries to be haunted."

"Perception of an object costs / Precise the object’s loss— / Perception in itself a Gain / Reply to its Bestow—"

"The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind—"

"Each Life Converges to some Centre— / Expressed—or still— / Exists in every Human Nature / A Goal—"

"The Brain is deeper than the sea— / For—hold them—Blue to Blue— / The one the other will absorb— / As Sponges—Buckets—do—"

"Much Madness is divinest Sense— / To a discerning Eye— / Much Sense—the starkest Madness—"

"Experiment escorts us last— / His Alibi the One / Of whom we ask the Way—"

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, / One clover, and a bee, / And revery."

"The revery alone will do, / If bees are few."

"The Brain is just the weight of God— / For—Heave them—Pound for Pound— / And they will differ—if they do— / As Syllable from Sound—"

"Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need."

"The Mind lives on the Heart / Like any parasite— / If that is full of Meat / The other is at ease—"

"A Wounded Deer—leaps highest— / I've heard the Hunter tell— / 'Tis but the Ecstasy of death— / And then the Brake is still!"

"A Route of Evanescence / With a revolving Wheel—"

"One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted— / One need not be a House— / The Brain has Corridors—surpassing / Material Place—"

"The Admirations—and Contempts—of time— / Show Orthodoxy—on its weaning-bench—"