“Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.”
Smile
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Emily Dickinson
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Beauty“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
Life“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Death“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
Food“Where thou art, that is home.”
Art“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
Truth“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
Death“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
Success“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“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”
Poetry“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Poetry“For love is immortality.”
Love“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
God“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
Great“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Morning“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“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
Truth