Emily Dickinson Quotes

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

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

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

"My friends are my estate."

"Forever is composed of nows."

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

"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."

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

"Fortune befriends the bold."

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

"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

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

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

"I dwell in possibility."

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

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

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

"Where thou art, that is home."

"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."

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil."

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

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

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

"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."

"The brain is wider than the sky."

"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."

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