“Where thou art, that is home.”
Art
“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
TruthAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Experience“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Age“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
Nature“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“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“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Life“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
Great“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
Truth“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“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”
Poetry“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
God“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Death“For love is immortality.”
Love“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Life“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
Success“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Morning