Emily Dickinson quotes

Born
December 10, 1830 Amherst, Massachusetts, US.

Died
May 15, 1886.

Occupation
Poet.

Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts into a prominent family with strong ties to its community. 

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
– Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is.
– Emily Dickinson

I dwell in possibility.
– Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
– Emily Dickinson

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

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
– Emily Dickinson

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
– Emily Dickinson

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

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
– Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
– Emily Dickinson

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
– Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
– Emily Dickinson

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
– Emily Dickinson

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
– Emily Dickinson

A wounded deer leaps the highest.
– Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.
– Emily Dickinson

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

Forever is composed of nows.
– Emily Dickinson

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

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
– Emily Dickinson

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

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
– Emily Dickinson

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
– Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

Where thou art, that is home.
– Emily Dickinson