“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.”
More from Emily Dickinson
“I have one purpose on this earth and that is to become a great writer.”
“I love when people quote me.”
“Tragically, I am a woman.”
“I've known her from an ample nation Choose one; Then close the valves of her attention…”