Emily Dickinson quotes

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Forever is composed of nows.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

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 The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

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

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

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

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

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

I dwell in possibility.

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

Beauty is not caused. It is.

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

Fortune befriends the bold.

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

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

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

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

Where thou art, that is home.

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

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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.

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

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

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

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

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!

My friends are my estate.

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