Emily Dickinson quotes

“Where thou art, that is home.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

“Dying is a wild night and a new road.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.”

— 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

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

— Emily Dickinson

“He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Fortune befriends the bold.”

— Emily Dickinson

“It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.”

— Emily Dickinson

“I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.”

— Emily Dickinson

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

— Emily Dickinson

“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”

— Emily Dickinson