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Emily Dickinson Quotes

I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself,"That must have been the sun!

Emily Dickinson

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