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Emily Dickinson Quotes

Emily Dickinson
  • "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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