“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Time
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Experience“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Life“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Morning“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”
Hope“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”
Poetry“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
Great“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
Nature“Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.”
Smile“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
Success“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
Poetry“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
Food“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
Truth“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Death“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Life“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Beauty“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Age“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
God“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
Death