Quotes by 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.
To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be!
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
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.
The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
For Love is Immortality.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Beauty is not caused. It is.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
'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!
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.
Where thou art, that is home.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
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.
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Is wholesome even for the King.
