“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
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
DeathAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Death“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Poetry“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Age“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Morning“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Experience“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
Truth“Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.”
Smile“Where thou art, that is home.”
Art“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“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
Great“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
Success“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
Death“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
God“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”
Hope“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Time“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
Nature“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
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