Emily dickinson quotes

Action is redemption.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.

Remorse is memory awake.

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

I dwell in possibility.

My friends are my estate.

Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

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

Love is everything. And that's all we know about it.

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

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.

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

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

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

Forever is composed of nows.

You don't have to be a house to be haunted.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Wonder is not precisely knowing.

Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

Friends are nations in themselves.

I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!

I must go in, the fog is rising.

This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound.

I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.

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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Love is like life-merely longer.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.

Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.

Hope . . . never stops at all.

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

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

The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care

I tasted life.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

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 a chart were given.

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

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

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

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me

Beauty is not caused. It is.

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

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

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

If I can stop one heart from breaking…” 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 Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

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

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

For love is immortality.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

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

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

The Soul should always stand ajar.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Till I loved I never lived.

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

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

The Soul selects her own Society.

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

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

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

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.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

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

Where thou art, that is home.

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

Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

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.

There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

To be alive──is Power.

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

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

I imagine therefore I belong and am free.

You can stay young as long as you learn.

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

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

I have an appetite for silence.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

I dwell in possiblities.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

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

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

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