Famous Quotes

Quotes by Emily Dickinson

• After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
• Beauty is not caused. It is.
• Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
• Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
• Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
• For love is immortality.
• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
• How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
• I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
• If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
• If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
• Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
• Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
• Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
• Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
• Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
• Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
• There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
• 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.
• They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
• To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
• 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.
• Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
• Where thou art, that is home.