Emily Dickinson Quotes

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

— Emily Dickinson

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

— Emily Dickinson

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

— Emily Dickinson

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

— Emily Dickinson

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.

— Emily Dickinson

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

— Emily Dickinson

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.

— Emily Dickinson

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.

— Emily Dickinson

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

— Emily Dickinson

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

— Emily Dickinson
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