Emily Dickinson Quotes

Tell the truth, but tell it slant... view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed... view

By: Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most... view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

My friends are my estate... view

By: Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn... view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance, it's toil.. view

By: Emily Dickinson

The brain is wider than the sky... view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

They might not need me.. view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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... view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home... view

By: Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody, who are you?.. view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me.. view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

A wounded deer leaps the highest... view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is... view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

Dying is a wild night and a new road... view

By: Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate... view

By: Emily Dickinson

Find ecstasy in life.. view

By: Emily Dickinson

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture... view

By: Emily Dickinson

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame.. view

By: Emily Dickinson

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

By: Emily Dickinson

For love is immortality... view

By: Emily Dickinson