Emily Dickinson famous quotes

Beauty is not caused. It is.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Beauty #Children

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

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Truth

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

#Encouraging #Spiritual #Not Giving Up

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Inspirational #Hope #Soul

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

#Life #Happiness #Positivity

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

#Love #Inspirational #Life

The brain is wider than the sky.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Inspirational #Learning #Sky

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

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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

#Love #Hope #Bird

We turn not older with years but newer every day.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Inspirational #Life #Birthday

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Nature #Writing #Adversity

My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?
-- Emily Dickinson

Forever is composed of nows.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Happiness #Carpe Diem #Power

A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
-- Emily Dickinson

#Breathe

My friends are my estate.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Love #Friendship #Family

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

#Inspirational #Women #Writing

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

#Happiness #Smile #Laughter

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve
-- Emily Dickinson

#Courage #Nerves #Deny

The Soul should always stand ajar.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Soul #Should

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

#Life #Wisdom #Communication

I felt it shelter to speak to you.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Inspirational #Relationship #Smile

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

#Good Luck #Toil #Chance

I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Faith #Sea #Heaven

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Two #Bird #Looks

There is no frigate like a book
-- Emily Dickinson

#Book

For love is immortality.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Love #Romantic #Romance

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

#Done #Literature #Littles

The Soul selects her own Society.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Soul

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Love #Morning #Dawn

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

#Love #Inspirational #Life

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Men #Dazzle #Blind

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care
-- Emily Dickinson

#Heart #Doe #Care

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Inspirational #Life #Needs

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Light #Genius #Hats

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

#Love #Life #Arguing

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

#Tragedy #Literature #Bees

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

#Age #Aging #Old Age

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Taken #Writing #Poetry

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

#Hammers #Anvils

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

#God #Spiritual #Memorable

The past is not a package one can lay away.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Past

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

#Men #Names #Giving

Till I loved I never lived.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Love #Romantic #Romance

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --
-- Emily Dickinson

#Eye #Majority #Madness

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Years #Norway #November

Bring me the sunset in a cup.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Sunset #Cups

I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!
-- Emily Dickinson

#Squirrels #Rose #Sun

How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?
-- Emily Dickinson

#Morning #Clothes #People

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Love #Heaven #Earth

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Parent #Scary #Confusing

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...
-- Emily Dickinson

#Regret #Flower #Lovely

So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Heaven #Lasts

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Grief #Eye #Grieving

I must go in, the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Halloween #Fog #Rising

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Mom #Mother

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Inspirational #Life #Break

The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Hands #Paradise

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

#Summer #Nature #Tree

Where thou art, that is home.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Happiness #Art #Soulmate

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

#Death #Spiritual #Night

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

#Love #Sympathy #Death

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

#Life #Time #Memories

I dwell in possibility.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Inspirational #Recovery #Addiction

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

#Happiness #Women #Hard Times

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

#Love #Life #Women

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

#Writing #Enthusiasm #Said

I'll tell you how the Sun rose.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Rose #Sun

Fortune befriends the bold.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Confidence #Courage #Determination

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Inspirational #Motivational #Failure

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Lanterns

Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane
-- Emily Dickinson

#Insane #World #Sanity

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Sister #Sibling #Might

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Inspirational #Life #Art

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
-- Emily Dickinson

#Book #Taken #Fire

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Light #Goes On #Poet

The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Morning #Spring #Would Be

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Friendship #Mind #Letters

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!
-- Emily Dickinson

#Life #Knives #Culprit

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Awe

To be alive──is Power.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Alive

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Halloween #House #Brain

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Carpe Diem #Imagination #Possibility

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Sympathy #Pain #Heart

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Happiness #Over You #Care

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Spring #Food #Garden

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Love #Relationship #Reading

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Encouragement #Heaven #Events

I dwell in possibilities .
-- Emily Dickinson

#Healing #Possibility

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Happiness #Eden #House

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Book #Reading #Writing

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Science #Religion #Would Be

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me
-- Emily Dickinson

#Compassion #World #Letters

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Common Sense #Profound #Words Of Wisdom

I tasted life.
-- Emily Dickinson

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Faith #Bridges #Scene

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -
-- Emily Dickinson

#Bees #Clovers #Prairie

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Kings #Spring #Insanity

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Dog #Hills #Companion

Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.
-- Emily Dickinson

#Summer #Wine