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Emily Dickinson
American
Poet
About the author
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#God
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Time
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Time
#Love
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,
American
Poet
#Will
#Bees
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Truth
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Love
#Immortality
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Art
#Home
I'm nobody, who are you?
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Time
#First
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Death
#Immortality
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Day
#Word
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Poetry
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Beauty
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,
American
Poet
#Body
#Poetry
#Fire
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Man
#Behavior
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Celebrity
#Talent
#Merit
#Punishment
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Dogs
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Night
#Road
#Dying
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Food
#Fame
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Life
#Sense
#Living
#Joy
#Ecstasy
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Infinite
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Life
#Man
#Living
#Name
#Fame
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Feeling
#Pain
#Nerves
For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Love
#Immortality
I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Possibility
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Heart
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Life
#Love
#Immortality
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Nature
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,
American
Poet
#Hope
#Words
#Soul
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,
American
Poet
#Words
#Poor
#Spirit
Fortune befriends the bold.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Fortune
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Love
#Hope
#Birds
#Heaven
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Truth
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Hell
#Heaven
#Parting
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Success
#Succeed
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Nothing
#Saying
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#People
#Oppression
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Thought
#Old
#Age
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Will
#Open
#Dawn
My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Friends
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Dawn
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Life
#Love
#Death
#Creation
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Life
#Will
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Chance
#Smile
#Luck
#Fortune
The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Sky
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Experience
#Soul
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Poetry
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.
Emily Dickinson,
American
Poet
#Smile
#Necessity
#Sight