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Emily Dickinson Quotes
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Date of Birth: December 10, 1830 Date of Death: May 15, 1886 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Emily Dickinson Related Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Walt Whitman Bryant H. McGill Carl Sandburg James Russell Lowell T. S. Eliot |
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 Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. 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 Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. Emily Dickinson Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? Emily Dickinson Dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson Dying is a wild night and a new road. 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 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 Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. 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 I'm nobody, who are you? 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 Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. Emily Dickinson Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. Emily Dickinson My friends are my estate. 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 Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. Emily Dickinson People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. Emily Dickinson Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. 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 Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. Emily Dickinson Tell the truth, but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Emily Dickinson The brain is wider than the sky. 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 To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. 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 Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. Emily Dickinson Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. 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 |
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