Emily Dickinson Quotes
Beauty is not caused. It is.
- Emily Dickinson
My friends are my estate.
- Emily Dickinson
I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
- Emily Dickinson
‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without 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
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
- Emily Dickinson
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who’s living makes a name.
- Emily Dickinson
The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
- Emily Dickinson
I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.
- Emily Dickinson
The Brain is wider than the Sky For put them side by side The one the other will contain With ease and You beside.
- Emily Dickinson
Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit Life!
- Emily Dickinson
Forever is composed of nows.
- Emily Dickinson
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
- Emily Dickinson
His Labor is a Chant his Idleness a Tune oh, for a Bee’s experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
- Emily Dickinson
Where thou art that is Home.
- Emily Dickinson
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.
- 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 Earth.
- Emily Dickinson
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
- Emily Dickinson
Death is a Dialouge between, The Spirit and the Dust.
- Emily Dickinson
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
- Emily Dickinson
There is no frigate like a book. To take us lands away.
- Emily Dickinson
There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons. That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes.
- Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed.
- Emily Dickinson
I felt it shelter to speak to you.
- Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life, Posterior to death, Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.
- Emily Dickinson
Anger as soon as fed is dead — Tis starving makes it fat.
- Emily Dickinson
Besides the autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days. A little this side of the snow And that side of the haze.
- Emily Dickinson
We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after Rank, with even feet And uniforms of Snow.
- Emily Dickinson
Death is a Dialogue between, The Spirit and the Dust.
- Emily Dickinson
To love 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
Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
- Emily Dickinson
That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.
- Emily Dickinson
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
- Emily Dickinson


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