“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Life
“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
TimeAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
Great“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
Food“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
Success“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
Truth“Where thou art, that is home.”
Art“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Death“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
Death“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
Nature“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Poetry“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Morning“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Time“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
Truth“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Age“Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.”
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“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”
Poetry“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”
Hope“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