Emily Dickinson Quotes
Born: December 10, 1830
Emily Dickinson, the reclusive poet of Amherst, is an unlikely but profound oracle of mindfulness and peace. Through her compact, revolutionary verse, she distilled the vastness of human experience—solitude, nature, mortality, and the soul’s quiet resilience—into crystalline moments of awareness. Her philosophy championed the sacred in the ordinary: a buzzing fly, a slant of light, a simple act of dwelling within oneself. Dickinson’s legacy is a testament to finding infinite tranquility in finite space. Her words resonate deeply today because they offer a sanctuary from noise, gently teaching that peace is not found in escape, but in the radical, attentive embrace of the present moment.
Emily Dickinson Quotes (67)
"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"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
— Emily Dickinson"Beauty is not caused. It is."
— Emily Dickinson"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
— Emily Dickinson"My friends are my estate."
— Emily Dickinson"Forever is composed of nows."
— Emily Dickinson"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."
— 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"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
— Emily Dickinson"Fortune befriends the bold."
— Emily Dickinson"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"
— Emily Dickinson"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."
— Emily Dickinson"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
— Emily Dickinson"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."
— Emily Dickinson"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."
— Emily Dickinson"I dwell in possibility."
— 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"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
— Emily Dickinson"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
— Emily Dickinson"Where thou art, that is home."
— 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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
— Emily Dickinson"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil."
— Emily Dickinson"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson"A wounded deer leaps the highest."
— Emily Dickinson"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
— Emily Dickinson"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."
— Emily Dickinson"The brain is wider than the sky."
— Emily Dickinson"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."
— Emily Dickinson"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
— Emily Dickinson