Emily Dickinson Quotes

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"Nature is what we see—The Hill—The Afternoon—Squirrel—Eclipse—the Bumble bee—Nay—Nature is Heaven—Nature is what we hear..."

"The Soul selects her own Society — Then — shuts the Door —"

"Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; but microscopes are prudent in an emergency."

"Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed."

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

"There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away"

"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--a house that tries to be haunted."

"Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."

"I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors –"

"Forever is composed of nows."

"Water, is taught by thirst. Land - by the Oceans passed. Transport - by throe - Peace - by its battles told - Love, by Memorial Mold - Birds, by the Snow."

"My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me"

"Wild Nights - Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury!"

"I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air - Between the Heaves of Storm -"

"I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!"

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

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery."

"I felt a funeral, in my brain, / And mourners to and fro / Kept treading - treading - till it seemed / That Sense was breaking through."

"Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye -"

"The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care."

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

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –"

"This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me - The simple News that Nature told - With tender Majesty"

"Love is anterior to Life - Posterior to Death - Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth"

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

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

"Exhilaration is within."

"A wounded deer leaps highest."

"Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality."

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies"

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."

"The Brain — is wider than the Sky — For — put them side by side — The one the other will contain With ease — and You — beside —"