Quotes By Emily Dickinson

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

Where thou art, that is home.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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

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

For love is immortality.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

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

My friends are my estate.

The brain is wider than the sky.

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

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

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

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

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

I dwell in possibility.

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

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.

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.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

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

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.