Emily Dickinson Quotes

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, Words, Soul

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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson

Live, Heart, Stop

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson

Nothing, Saying, Sometimes

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

Smile, Small, Might

Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

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

Human, Tell, Dogs

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

Poetry, Book, Fire

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Death, Stop, Ourselves

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson

Life, Find, Enough

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

Behavior, Thinks, Feels

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson

Romantic, Morning, Dawn

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson

Highest, Wounded, Deer

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

Live, Said, Dead

My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson

Friends, Estate

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

Life, Love, Death

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

Experience, Soul, Stand

For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson

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

Love, Time, Else

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson

Truth, Tell, Rare

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson

Hard, Times, Oppression

The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson

Brain, Sky, Wider

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

Door, Knowing, Open

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

Life, Time, Live

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

Poetry, Off, Head

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson

Life, Give, Living

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 10, 1830

Died: May 15, 1886

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