“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”
Poetry
“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.”
SmileAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope“Where thou art, that is home.”
Art“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
Truth“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
Great“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Poetry“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Death“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“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
God“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
Success“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Experience“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“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Beauty“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Life“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 love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Time“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“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Morning