Emily Dickinson – Page 2

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

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. – 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

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – 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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. – Emily Dickinson

For love is immortality. – Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. – Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

Beauty is not caused. It is. – 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

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

Publication – is the auction of the Mind of Man. – Emily Dickinson

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