Emily Dickinson Quotes

» If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

» Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

» To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

» Forever is composed of nows.

» How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

» Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

» I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

» Fortune befriends the bold.

» Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

» It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

» Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

» Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

» If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

» A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

» Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

» Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

» The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

» They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

» Where thou art, that is home.

» 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.

» They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

» For love is immortality.

» Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

» I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

» A wounded deer leaps the highest.

» Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

» Beauty is not caused. It is.

» Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

» He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

» After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

» Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

» Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

» I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

» Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

» People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

» 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.

» If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

» There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

» Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

» Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

» Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

» Dwell in possibility.

» Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

» Dying is a wild night and a new road.

» My friends are my estate.

» The brain is wider than the sky.

» That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

» Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

» To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

» Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

» Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

» Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

» Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.

» I'm nobody, who are you?

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