Emily Dickinson on Minimalism Quotes

"Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need."

"I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you — Nobody — too?"

"The Brain — is wider than the Sky — For — put them side by side — The one the other will contain"

"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."

"We outgrow love, like other things / And put it in the Drawer —"

"A Wounded Deer — leaps highest —"

"The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind—"

"A little Madness in the Spring / Is wholesome even for the King"

"Water, is taught by thirst. Land — by the Oceans passed."

"The missing All — prevented Me / From missing minor Things —"

"The Soul selects her own Society— / Then—shuts the Door— / To her divine Majority— / Present no more—"

"Infinite softness — May be seen / On any polished Face —"

"A solitude of space / A solitude of sea / A solitude of death, but these / Society shall be"

"Finite — to fail, but infinite to Venture —"

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"Renunciation — is a piercing Virtue — The letting go — A Presence — for an Expectation —"

"The Heart asks Pleasure — first — / And then — Excuse from Pain —"

"I dwell in Possibility — A fairer House than Prose —"

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

"One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — / One need not be a House —"

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"Exhilaration is within — There can no Outer Wine / So lift the Spirit from itself"

"They might not need me — yet they might — I'll let my Heart be just in sight"

"Fame is a fickle food / Upon a shifting plate"

"Earth is a syllable, in the sentence of eternity."

"To be alive — is Power — / Existence — in itself —"

"The Outer—from the Inner / Derives its Magnitude—"

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

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

"The soul's distinct connection / With immortality"

"Enough is as good as a feast."

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

"The Pedigree of Honey / Does not concern the Bee — / A Clover, any time, to him, / Is Aristocracy —"