108 result(s) for Emily Dickinson Quotes.
"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
"Our lives are Swiss - so still - so cool - till some odd afternoon the Alps neglect their curtains, and we look farther."
"Though I get home how late, how late!"
"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."
"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"
"Feeling is always worth more than knowing. It’s where life’s real meaning lies."
"To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else."
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"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the skies."
"Let us go in; the fog is rising."
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
"I am nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?"
"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."
"Where thou art, that is home."
"Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me –"
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
"My friends are my 'estate'. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them."
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - Success in Circuit lies."
"To see the Summer Sky is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee."
"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."
"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."
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
"Beauty is not caused. It is."
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
"Dying is a wild night and a new road."
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
"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."
"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. And then, if we are true to plan our statures touch the skies."
"I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?"
"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."
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
"The heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care."
"I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?"
"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."
"I am out with lanterns, looking for myself."
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"I took my power in my hand and went against the world."
"Ruin is formal - devil's work - consecutive and slow."
"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell."
"Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it."
"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
"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."
"The soul selects her own society, then shuts the door."
"Forever is composed of nows."
"Luck is not chance, it's toil."
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise."
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
"The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care."
"I dwell in possibility."
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant."
"I'm nobody! Who are you?"
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
"If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves."
"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."
"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
"Dwell in possibility."
"The brain is wider than the sky."
"The only commandment love asks is that it remain love."
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes."
"Beauty crowds me till I die."
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically 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?"
"That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet."
"Hope is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -"
"I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d banish us – you know."
"To be alive is Power,
Existence – in itself –
Without a further function,
Omnipotence – Enough –"
"We never know how high we are
Till we are asked to rise
And then if we are true to plan
Our statures touch the skies"
"I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –"
"The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside—"
"Not knowing when the dawn will come,
I open every door."
"To love somebody is always reciprocal. We may not win what we want, but we always get what we need."
"Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality"
"The heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care"
"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;"
"I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes -"
"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality."
"A wounded deer leaps highest."
"How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!"
"I'm wife—I've finished that—
That other state—
I'm Czar—I'm woman now—
It's safer so."
"We grow accustomed to the Dark—
When Light is put away—"
"The Soul selects her own Society –
Then – shuts the Door –
To her divine Majority –
Present no more –"
"Fame is a bee.
It has a song–
It has a sting–
Ah, too, it has a wing."
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?"
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all."
"To live is so startling it leaves but little room for other occupations."
"Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality."
"The Brain – is wider than the Sky –"
"The Soul selects her own Society – Then – shuts the Door –"
"I dwell in Possibility –"
"Nature is a haunted house—but Art—a House that tries to be haunted."
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,"
"I'm wife – I've finished that –"
"Not to be able to write, that is loss; but to be able, and not - that is catastrophe."
"I had no time to Hate Because The Grave would hinder Me."
"To be alive is power."
"My business is circumference."
"The future never spoke."
"Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it."
"My friends are my estate."
"To see the Summer Sky is Poetry"
"Saying nothing sometimes says the most."
"They say that time assuages - Time never did relieve - An hour to learn surpasses The stature of relief"
"The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth"
"Fame is a bee. It has a song-- It has a sting-- Ah, too, it has a wing."
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and look at it, until it shines."
"God is not so careful as we are. He does not count his words."
"Where thou art — that is home."
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