Emily Dickinson Quotes

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

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

There is no frigate like a book

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

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

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

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

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul–BOOKS.

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

Write to me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

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 physical 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?

A great hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

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

If I feel physical as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

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

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul–BOOKS.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

Spring’s first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

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

But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

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

We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

A morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

For love is immortality.

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

Till I loved I never lived.

The career of flowers differs from ours only in audibleness.

My friends are my estate.

This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands, I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, Judge tenderly of me.

What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

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Emily Dickinson Quotes on Friendship

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.

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

My friends are my estate.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

Emily Dickinson Quotes about Books

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lies True Poems flee

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

A precious, moldering pleasure ‘t is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

Emily Dickinson Quote Hope Feathers

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 Quote about Food

I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, slates, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you don’t know how to make the staff of life learns with dispatch.

The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is an aristocracy.

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not the second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer’s corn; Men eat of it and die.

Emily Dickinson Quotes about Spring

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

A wounded deer leaps highest, I’ve heard the hunter tell; ‘Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is the mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you’re hurt exclaim.

The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Death

A Toad can die of Light – Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men

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

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

You’ll find it when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

Emily Dickinson Quotes about Writing

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

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

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

If I feel physical as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson Quotes about Art

Where thou art, that is home.

Somewhere in my soul a thought went up in my mind today that I have had before, but did not finish, some way back, I could not fix the year. Nor where it went, nor why it came the second time to me, nor definitely what it was, have I the art to say. But somewhere in my soul, I know I’ve met the thing before; it just reminded me-‘ taws all’-and came my way no more.

Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.

Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say – So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

Emily Dickinson Quotes About Poetry

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 physical 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?

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lies— True Poems flee—

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson Quotes on Love

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

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – And sings the tunes without the words – And never stops at all.

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

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

Emily Dickinson Quotes on Nature

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lies True Poems flee

Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem.

Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say – So impotent our wisdom is to her simplicity.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

Emily Dickinson Quotes about Light

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 Quote Hope is the Thing

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 Quotes on Identity

Estranged from Beauty — none can be –For Beauty is Infinity — And the power to be finitely ceased Before Identity was leased.

Adventure most unto itself The Soul condemned to be –Attended by a single Hound Its own identity.

Nature and God — I neither knew Yet Both so well knew me They startled, like Executors Of My identity.

Emily Dickinson Quotes Success is Counted, Sweetest

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.

Emily Dickinson Quotes on Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – And sings the tunes without the words – And never stops at all.

Hope is a strange invention – A Patent of the Heart – In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Emily Dickinson Quote if I can stop

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 Quotes About Life