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Emily Dickinson QUOTES

Emily Dickinson QUOTES

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

― Emily Dickinson

2 " Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. "

― Emily Dickinson

3 " Heart, we will forget him,

You and I, tonight!

You must forget the warmth he gave,

I will forget the light. "

― Emily Dickinson

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

― Emily Dickinson

5 " Till I loved I never lived. "

― Emily Dickinson

6 " That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality "

― Emily Dickinson

7 " We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. "

― Emily Dickinson

8 " 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

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

― Emily Dickinson

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

― Emily Dickinson

11 " 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. "

― Emily Dickinson , The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

12 " Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind-- "

― Emily Dickinson

13 " A charm invests a face
Imperfectly beheld,—
The lady dare not lift her veil
For fear it be dispelled.

But peers beyond her mesh,
And wishes, and denies,—
Lest interview annul a want
That image satisfies. "

― Emily Dickinson , The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

14 " 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 , The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

15 " 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. "

― Emily Dickinson , The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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

― Emily Dickinson

17 " 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 chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me. "

― Emily Dickinson

18 " Impossibility, like wine
Exhilarates the man
Who tastes it; Possibility
Is flavoreless. "

― Emily Dickinson

19 " She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side. "

― Emily Dickinson , Selected Poems

20 " I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether, could they choose between,
They would not rather die. "

― Emily Dickinson