Emily Dickinson Quotes about House

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You don't have to be a house to be haunted.

You don't have to be a house to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson

House

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

Halloween, House, Brain

c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

Emily Dickinson

Happiness, Eden, House

Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1131, Harvard University Press

One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

Emily Dickinson

Self, House, Brain

Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.184, Harvard University Press