Famous Emily Dickinson Quotations

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"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse."
by Emily Dickinson
"...the fog is rising."
by Last words of Emily Dickinson
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed."
by Emily Dickinson
"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."
by Emily Dickinson
"A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"Anger as soon as fed is dead. 'Tis starving makes it fat"
by Emily Dickinson
"Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat."
by Emily Dickinson
"Becuase I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality"
by Emily Dickinson
"Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality."
by Emily Dickinson
"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate"
by Emily Dickinson
"Faith--is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all."
by Emily Dickinson
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all."
by Emily Dickinson
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
by Emily Dickinson
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all."
by 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"
by Emily Dickinson
"Hope is the thing with feathers -- that perches in the soul -- and sings the tune without words -- and never stops, at all."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all."
by Emily Dickinson
"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! by Emily Dickinson"
by How strange that nature does not knock and yet does not intrude! by Emily Dickinson
"I dwell in possiblities."
by Emily Dickinson
"I dwell in possibility..."
by Emily Dickinson
"I dwell in possibility."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."
by Emily Dickinson
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry"
by 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
into his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain."
by Emily Dickinson
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
by 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"
by Emily Dickinson
"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."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned"
by Emily Dickinson
"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them"
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"My friends are my estate."
by Emily Dickinson
"My friends are my estate"
by Emily Dickinson
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought"
by Emily Dickinson
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place."
by Emily Dickinson
"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell"
by Emily Dickinson
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things."
by Emily Dickinson
"Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed"
by Emily Dickinson
"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
by Emily Dickinson
"The mere sense of living is joy enough."
by Emily Dickinson
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
"There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--"
by Emily Dickinson
"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse"
by Emily Dickinson
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
by Emily Dickinson
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else"
by Emily Dickinson
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."
by Emily Dickinson
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day"
by Emily Dickinson
"A wounded deer leaps the highest."
by Emily Dickinson
"Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir."
by Emily Dickinson
"I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven."
by Emily Dickinson
"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."
by Emily Dickinson
"I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch."
by Emily Dickinson
"Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- ."
by Emily Dickinson
"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."
by Emily Dickinson
"Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility."
by Emily Dickinson
"Where thou art, that is home."
by Emily Dickinson
"His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!"
by Emily Dickinson
"The fog is rising."
by Emily Dickinson
"A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend?"
by Emily Dickinson
"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
by Emily Dickinson
"Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --"
by Emily Dickinson
"Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned."
by Emily Dickinson
"The Brain is wider than the sky-."
by Emily Dickinson
"Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality."
by Emily Dickinson
"I took one drought of life I'll tell you what I paid Precisely an existence The market price, they said."
by Emily Dickinson (no. 1725)
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all."
by Emily Dickinson
"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."
by 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."
by Emily Dickinson
"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
by Emily Dickinson
"Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency"
by Emily Dickinson
"If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease on Life the Aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain."
by Emily Dickinson
"This is the Hour of Lead -- Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -- First --Chill --then Stupor --then the letting go --."
by Emily Dickinson
"How the old mountains drip with sunset, And the brake of dun! How the hemlocks are tipped in tinsel By the wizard sun! How the old steeples hand the scarlet, Till the ball is full, -- Have I the lip of the flamingo That I dare to tell? Then, how the fire ebbs like billows, Touching all the grass With a departing, sapphire feature, As if a duchess pass! How a small dusk crawls on the village Till the houses blot; And the odd flambeaux no men carry Glimmer on the spot! Now it is night in nest and kennel, And where was the wood, Just a dome of abyss is nodding Into solitude! -- These are the visions baffled Guido; Titian never told; Domenichino dropped the pencil, Powerless to unfold."
by Emily Dickinson
"Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God."
by Emily Dickinson
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes— The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs—"
by Emily Dickinson
"Apparently with no surprise To any happy flower, The frost beheads it at its play"
by Emily Dickinson
"Burglar! Banker—Father! I am poor once more!"
by Emily Dickinson
"Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality."
by Emily Dickinson
"Death is a Dialogue between, The Spirit and the Dust."
by Emily Dickinson
"I cannot live with you."
by Emily Dickinson
"I died for Beauty—but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room—"
by Emily Dickinson
"I could not die with you,"
by Emily Dickinson
"I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod."
by Emily Dickinson
"I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—"
by Emily Dickinson
"If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain:"
by Emily Dickinson
"It has no future but itself— Its infinite contain Its past—enlightened to perceive New periods of pain."
by Emily Dickinson
"I've seen a Dying Eye"
by Emily Dickinson
"Let us go in; the fog is rising."
by Emily Dickinson
"Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!"
by Emily Dickinson
"My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun— In Corners—till a Day The Owner passed—identified— And carried Me away—"
by Emily Dickinson
"My life closed twice before its close—"
by Emily Dickinson
"Pain has an element of blank—"
by Emily Dickinson


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