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Quotes by Emily Dickinson

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
– Emily Dickinson
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
– Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
– Emily Dickinson
Beauty is not caused. It is.
– Emily Dickinson
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
– Emily Dickinson
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
– Emily Dickinson
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
– Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
– Emily Dickinson
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
– Emily Dickinson
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
– Emily Dickinson
For Love is Immortality.
– Emily Dickinson
Forever is composed of nows.
– Emily Dickinson
Fortune befriends the bold.
– Emily Dickinson
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.
– Emily Dickinson
His Labor is a Chant - his Idleness - a Tune - oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
– Emily Dickinson
How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog!
– Emily Dickinson
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
– Emily Dickinson
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
– Emily Dickinson
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
– Emily Dickinson
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
– Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
– Emily Dickinson
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
– 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
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
– Emily Dickinson
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
– Emily Dickinson
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
– Emily Dickinson
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
– Emily Dickinson
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
– Emily Dickinson
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.
– 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
Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!
– Emily Dickinson
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
– Emily Dickinson
The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination.
– Emily Dickinson
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
– 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
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
– Emily Dickinson
'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
– Emily Dickinson
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
– 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
To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be!
– Emily Dickinson
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
– Emily Dickinson
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
– Emily Dickinson
Where thou art, that is home.
– Emily Dickinson
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
– Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
– Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality.
– Emily Dickinson
I dwell in possibility...
– Emily Dickinson
My friends are my estate.
– Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
– Emily Dickinson
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
– Emily Dickinson
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
– Emily Dickinson
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
– Emily Dickinson
Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
– Emily Dickinson
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
– Emily Dickinson
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
– Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
– Emily Dickinson