Emily Dickinson Quotes

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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality

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

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

There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

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.
He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!

A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

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

Till I loved I never lived.

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

Heart, we will forget him,

You and I, tonight!

You must forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light.

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.

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

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind-

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...