Memorable Quotes and quotations from Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson US poet (1830 - 1886)


Emily Dickinson -
- Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson -
- Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson -
- We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

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

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

Emily Dickinson -
- I dwell in possiblities.

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

Emily Dickinson -
- That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

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 - No. 1333
- A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

Emily Dickinson -
- Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson -
- Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Emily Dickinson -
- If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
or cool one Pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
into his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson -
- The mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson -
- I dwell in possibility...

Emily Dickinson -
- My friends are my estate.

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

Emily Dickinson -
- Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson -
- Becuase I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality