The full name of Emily Dickinson is Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. She was an American poet. We have a good collection of Emily Dickinson quotes on life, hope, poems, immortality, flowers, death, inspirational, and motivational.
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, and died on May 15, 1886, in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Her father’s name is Edward Dickinson.
Emily Dickinson Quotes
“Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit — Life!” – Emily Dickinson
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.” – Emily Dickinson
“Dwell in possibility.” – Emily Dickinson
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.” – Emily Dickinson
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” – Emily Dickinson
“That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet” – Emily Dickinson
“Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is an expensive smile is earned.” – Emily Dickinson
“Where thou art, that is home.” – Emily Dickinson
“Saying nothing…sometimes says the most.” – Emily Dickinson
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And every. The very alone will do, If bees are few.” – Emily Dickinson
“Forever is composed of nows.” – 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.” – Emily Dickinson
“I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes – I wonder if it weighs like mine – or has an easier size.” – Emily Dickinson
“Beauty is not caused. It is.” – Emily Dickinson
“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.” – Emily Dickinson
“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
“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
“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
“How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul” – Emily Dickinson
“Nature, like us is sometimes caught Without her diadem.” – Emily Dickinson
“Anger as soon as fed is dead – ‘Tis starving that makes it fat” – Emily Dickinson
“For Love is Immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
“The abdication of belief makes the behavior small — better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.” – Emily Dickinson
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.” – Emily Dickinson
“Nods from the Gilded pointers –/ Nods from the Seconds slim –/ Decades of Arrogance between/ The Dial life –/ And Him –” – Emily Dickinson
“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.” – Emily Dickinson
“Faith is the pierless bridge supporting what we see unto the scene that we do not.” – Emily Dickinson
“To fight aloud is very brave, but gallantry, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.” – Emily Dickinson
“We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate – following behind us -bolts it, And we accost no more” – Emily Dickinson
“My friends are my estate.” – Emily Dickinson
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” – Emily Dickinson
“I like a look of Agony because I know it’s true — men do not sham Convulsion, Nor simulate, a Throe –” – Emily Dickinson
“Heaven is what I cannot reach!” – Emily Dickinson
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
“Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid — as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.” – Emily Dickinson
“Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed.” – Emily Dickinson
“This World is not Conclusion./ A Sequel stands beyond–/ Invisible, as Music–/ But positive, as Sound.” – Emily Dickinson
“Our journey has advanced; / Our feet were almost come / To that odd fork in Being’s road,/ Eternity by term.” – Emily Dickinson
“Heaven is so far of the mind that was the mind dissolved — the site of it by architect could not again be proved.” – Emily Dickinson
“A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just begins to live that day.” – Emily Dickinson
“Remorse –is Memory –awake –/ Her Parties all astir –/ A Presence of Departed Acts –/ At window –and at Door –” – Emily Dickinson
“Time is a Test of Trouble But not a Remedy If such it proves, it prove too There was no Malady” – Emily Dickinson
“A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” – Emily Dickinson
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” – Emily Dickinson
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” – Emily Dickinson
“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man whom living makes a name.” – Emily Dickinson
“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” – Emily Dickinson
“I dwell in Possibility.” – Emily Dickinson
“Much Madness is most divine Sense – To a discerning Eye – Much Sense – the starkest Madness” – Emily Dickinson
“My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June — and in it are my friends — every one of them.” – Emily Dickinson
“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.” – Emily Dickinson
“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature’s touch the skies.” – Emily Dickinson
“Much Madness is most divine Sense — to a discerning Eye — much Sense — the starkest Madness –” – Emily Dickinson
“Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb – or Dome of Worm – or Porch of Gnome – or some Elf’s Catacomb?” – Emily Dickinson
“What fortitude the Soul contains, / That it can so endure / The accent of a coming Foot– / The opening of a Door.” – Emily Dickinson
“This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me– / The simple News that Nature told– / With tender majesty.” – Emily Dickinson
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of the personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these” – Emily Dickinson
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of the 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.” – Emily Dickinson
“I argue to thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
“Anger as soon as fed is dead; ‘Tis starving makes it fat.” – Emily Dickinson
“‘Tis so much joy! ‘Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so This side the victory!” – Emily Dickinson
“Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see — but microscopes are prudent in an emergency” – Emily Dickinson
“Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see – but microscopes are prudent in an emergency” – Emily Dickinson
“His mind of man, a secret makes me meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.” – Emily Dickinson
“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
“Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.” – Emily Dickinson
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