Famous Emily Dickinson Quotes
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
Emily Dickinson
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.
Emily Dickinson
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.
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.
Emily Dickinson
November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
Emily Dickinson
When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.
Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson
My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike – But this slew all but him – Who so appareled his Escape – Too trackless for a Tomb.
Emily Dickinson
I’ll tell you how the Sun rose.
Emily Dickinson
