Emily Dickinson Quotes

The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

Friends are nations in themselves.

Hope . . . never stops at all.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Love is like life-merely longer.

Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

... I have no letter from the dead, yet daily love them more.

Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

Home is the definition of God.

The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

The hearts that never lean must fall.

Remorse is memory awake.

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.

Judge tenderly of me.

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!