34 Quotes By Emily Dickinson

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson on age

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.
Emily Dickinson on alone

Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson on art

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

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson on death

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson on death

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson on experience

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson on food

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson on god

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson on great

Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson on home

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson on hope

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson on hope

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

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson on life

For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson on love

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson on love

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

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson on nature

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.
Emily Dickinson on nature