Quotes By Emily Dickinson

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

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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.

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

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

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.

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

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Forever is composed of nows.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

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

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I'm nobody, who are you?

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

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

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

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.

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

Beauty is not caused. It is.

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

Fortune befriends the bold.

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