34 Quotes By Emily Dickinson


If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson on poetry

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson on poetry

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily Dickinson on poetry

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson on romantic

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.
Emily Dickinson on smile

Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson on smile

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily Dickinson on success

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson on time

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson on time

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson on truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily Dickinson on truth

Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson on beauty

How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson on fame

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.
Emily Dickinson on love