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Emily Dickinson Quotes

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

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: December 10, 1830
Died: May 15, 1886

Links

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

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

Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

My friends are my estate.
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

I'm nobody, who are you?
Emily Dickinson

All Emily Dickinson Quotations

Words

Head, Just, Might, Mine, Necessity, Need, Precisely, Sight, Small, Smile, Their

Definitions

Head, Just, Might, Mine, Necessity, Need, Sight, Small, Smile, Their