Quotes By Emily Dickinson

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.

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

For love is immortality.

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

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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

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.

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

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'm nobody, who are you?

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

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

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.

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.