Emily Dickinson
Quotes by Emily Dickinson
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
— 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.
— Emily Dickinson
Where thou art, that is home.
— Emily Dickinson
Beauty is not caused. It is.
— Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
— Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
— Emily Dickinson
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
— Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
— Emily Dickinson
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
— Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
— Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
— Emily Dickinson
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
— Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
— Emily Dickinson
Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
— Emily Dickinson
For love is immortality.
— Emily Dickinson
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
— Emily Dickinson
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
— 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.
— Emily Dickinson
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
— Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
— Emily Dickinson
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.
— Emily Dickinson
Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
— Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
— Emily Dickinson
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
— Emily Dickinson
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
— Emily Dickinson
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
— Emily Dickinson