Emily Dickinson quotes - page 2

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. (Emily Dickinson)
The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.
Emily Dickinson
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church, I keep it staying at Home With a bobolink for a Chorister, And an Orchard, for a Dome.
Emily Dickinson
Dying is a wild night and a new road. (Emily Dickinson)
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
Emily Dickinson
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson
Surgeons must be very careful, When they take the knife, Underneath their fine incisions, Stirs the Culprit Life.
Emily Dickinson
One need not be a chamber to be haunted One need not be a house The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
Emily Dickinson
I took one Draught of Life -- I'll tell you what I paid -- Precisely an existence -- The market price, they said. (Emily Dickinson)
Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of Cathedral tunes.
Emily Dickinson
Who has not found the Heaven - below - Will fail of it above -.
Emily Dickinson
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
Emily Dickinson