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Emily Dickinson Quotes
- "A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
- "A wounded deer leaps the highest."
- "After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."
- "Beauty is not caused. It is."
- "Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
- "Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."
- "Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
- "Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."
- "Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?"
- "Dwell in possibility."
- "Dying is a wild night and a new road."
- "Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."
- "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
- "Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."
- "For love is immortality."
- "Forever is composed of nows."
- "Fortune befriends the bold."
- "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."
- "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
- "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all."
- "How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"
- "I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
- "I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."
- "I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."
- "I'm nobody, who are you?"
- "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
- "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
- "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
- "It is better to be the hammer than the anvil."
- "Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."
- "Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
- "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
- "My friends are my estate."
- "Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."
- "Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
- "Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
- "People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."
- "Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all."
- "Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."
- "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."
- "Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."
- "Tell the truth, but tell it slant."
- "That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."
- "The brain is wider than the sky."
- "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
- "There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
- "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."
- "They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."
- "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
- "To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
- "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."
- "Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
- "Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
- "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
- "Where thou art, that is home."
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