“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Life
“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
GodAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Experience“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
Death“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
Great“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
Truth“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.”
Alone“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
Truth“For love is immortality.”
Love“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.”
Smile“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
God“Where thou art, that is home.”
Art“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Life“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Age“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Time“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“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Beauty“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Poetry“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”
Poetry