Emily Dickinson Quotes

Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson
Glee! The great storm is over!
Emily Dickinson
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it proved it proves too There was no Melody.
Emily Dickinson
Where thou art that is Home.
Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
Emily Dickinson
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily Dickinson
The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson
Sunrise: day's great progenitor.
Emily Dickinson
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.
Emily Dickinson
Luck is not chance it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson
Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation and The exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson
To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.
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
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
The hearts that never lean must fall.
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
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson
Where thou art that is home.
Emily Dickinson
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
Emily Dickinson
The brain is wider than the sky.
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
My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson
Anger as soon as fed is dead 'tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.
Emily Dickinson
Finite to fail but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.
Emily Dickinson
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
I dwell in possibility…
Emily Dickinson
If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As Housewives do a Fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls —And put them each in separate Drawers, For fear the numbers fuse —If only Centuries, delayed, I'd count them on my Hand, Subtracting, till my fingers dropped Into Van Diemen's land. If certain, when this life was out, That yours and mine should be, I ’d toss it yonder like a rind, And taste eternity. But, now, uncertain of the length Of this, that is between, It goads me, like the Goblin Bee, That will not state — its sting.
Emily Dickinson
The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.
Emily Dickinson
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing.
Emily Dickinson
There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it.
Emily Dickinson
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson
To be alive──is Power.
Emily Dickinson
The sun just touched the morning;tThe morning, happy thing,tSupposed that he had come to dwell,tAnd life would be all spring.
Emily Dickinson
Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Life is death we're lengthy at
Emily Dickinson
They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars,Like petals from a rose,When suddenly across the luneA wind with fingers goes.They perished in the seamless grass,No eye could find the place;But God on his repealless listCan summon every face
Emily Dickinson
Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away.
Emily Dickinson
Her breast is fit for pearls,But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thronesBut I have not a crest,Her heart is fit for home-I- a Sparrow- build thereSweet of twigs and twineMy perennial nest.
Emily Dickinson
The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.
Emily Dickinson
Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.
Emily Dickinson
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul...
Emily Dickinson
It was not Death, for I stood up,And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the BellsPut out their Tongues, for Noon.
Emily Dickinson