Emily Dickinson Quotes

I'm nobody, who are you?
Emily Dickinson

I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Love, Die, Loved

Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson

Forever, Composed

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson

Poetry, Book, Away

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson

God, Him, Recluse

Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily Dickinson

Night, Road, Dying

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

Words, Poor, Spirit

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson

Hell, Heaven, Parting

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson

Love, Hope, Heaven

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson

Great, Pain, Feeling

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson

Nature, Strange, Knock

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson

Success, Succeed, Sweetest

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Life, Love, Argue

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson

Life, Again, Makes

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

Nature, Alone, Few

Fortune befriends the bold.
Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson

Food, Fame, Fickle

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson

Fail, Infinite, Venture

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson

Age, Thought, Old

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson

Talent, Punishment, Celebrity

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson

Smile, Chance, Luck

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson

Truth, Tell, Slant

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson

Time, Done, Whenever

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 10, 1830

Died: May 15, 1886

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