“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Beauty
“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
NatureAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“For love is immortality.”
Love“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
Truth“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Experience“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
Truth“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“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Life“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
Food“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope“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“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“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Age“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Morning“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“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
Nature“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
Great“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Time