A wounded deer leaps the highest.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

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

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

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Dwell in possibility.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

For love is immortality.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Forever is composed of nows.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Fortune befriends the bold.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
- Emily Dickinson Quote

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

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

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

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

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

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

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.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

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

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

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 Quote

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
- Emily Dickinson Quote

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
- Emily Dickinson Quote