Emily Dickinson Quotes

Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present

Emily Dickinson Quotes

"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them."

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

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"Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires a sorest need."

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"God preaches, a noted Clergyman —
And the sermon is never long,
So instead of getting to Heaven, at last—
I’m going, all along."

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"Dreams — are well — but Waking's better,
If One wake at Morn —
If One wake at Midnight — better —
Dreaming — of the Dawn —"

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"Because I could not stop for Death —
He kindly stopped for me —
The Carriage held but just Ourselves —
And Immortality."

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"A Vastness, as a Neighbor, came,
A Wisdom, without Face, or Name,
A Peace, as Hemispheres at Home
And so the Night became."

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"The Pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee —
A Clover, any time, to him,
Is Aristocracy —"

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"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"Forever is composed of nows."

"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."

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

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

"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."

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

"Where thou art, that is home."

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