Quotes by

Emily Dickinson

The past is not a package one can lay away. – Emily Dickinson

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

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

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. – Emily Dickinson

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

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell. – Emily Dickinson

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy. – Emily Dickinson

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

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

Where thou art – that – is Home. – Emily Dickinson

I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness. – Emily Dickinson

I felt it shelter to speak to you. – Emily Dickinson