Emily Dickinson Quotes
An American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century.
(1830 - 1886)
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
[Adversity]
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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Anger as soon as fed is dead, 'tis starving makes it fat.
[Anger]
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
[Beauty]
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
[Dogs]
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away.
[Forgiveness]
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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
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For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
[Happiness]
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Forever is composed of nows.
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Fortune befriends the bold.
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