Emily Dickinson

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

-Emily Dickinson

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

alone
Where thou art, that is home.

-Emily Dickinson

art
Beauty is not caused. It is.

-Emily Dickinson

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

-Emily Dickinson

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

-Emily Dickinson

death
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

-Emily Dickinson

experience
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

-Emily Dickinson

food
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

-Emily Dickinson

god
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

-Emily Dickinson

great
Where thou art, that is home.

-Emily Dickinson

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

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

-Emily Dickinson

hope
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

-Emily Dickinson

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

-Emily Dickinson

life
For love is immortality.

-Emily Dickinson

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

-Emily Dickinson

love
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

-Emily Dickinson

morning
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

-Emily Dickinson

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

nature
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

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

-Emily Dickinson

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

-Emily Dickinson

poetry
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

-Emily Dickinson

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

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

-Emily Dickinson

smile
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

-Emily Dickinson

success
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

-Emily Dickinson

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

-Emily Dickinson

time
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

-Emily Dickinson

truth
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

-Emily Dickinson

truth

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