“Where thou art, that is home.”
Art
“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.”
AloneAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“For love is immortality.”
Love“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Beauty“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Experience“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Time“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Poetry“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”
Hope“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
Food“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
Truth“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“Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.”
Smile“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Life“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
Great“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“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“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Life“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Age“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Death“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
Truth