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Emily Dickinson

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Quotes by Emily Dickinson

"I dwell in possibility."

- Emily Dickinson

Imagination

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

- Emily Dickinson

Creativity

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

- Emily Dickinson

Compassion

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

Time Management

"I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose."

- Emily Dickinson

Inspiration

"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

Hope

"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

Hope

"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

Hope

"A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

- Emily Dickinson

Connection to Earth

"We turn not older with years but newer every day."

- Emily Dickinson

Personal Growth

"Luck is not just chance; it’s also about embracing opportunities with a joyful heart. May the luck o’ the Irish be with you always."

- Emily Dickinson

Empowerment

"November always seemed to me the Norway of the year."

- Emily Dickinson

Reflection

"There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away."

- Emily Dickinson

Imagination

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

- Emily Dickinson

Transformation

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

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"November always seems to me the Norway of the year."

- Emily Dickinson

Reflection

"Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"It might have been the lighthouse spark / Some sailor, rowing in the dark, / Had importuned to see!"

- Emily Dickinson

Creativity

"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."

- Emily Dickinson

Creativity

"There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away."

- Emily Dickinson

Imagination

"In May, witness nature's resilience as it dares to blossom."

- Emily Dickinson

Nature

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

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"The lovely flowers embarrass me; they make me regret I am not a bee"

- Emily Dickinson

Aspirations

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

- Emily Dickinson

Nature

"His labor is a chant,/ His idleness a tune;/ Oh, for a bee's experience/ Of clovers and of noon!"

- Emily Dickinson

Reflection

"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

Nature

"My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June — and in it are my friends — every one of them."

- Emily Dickinson

Spirituality

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

- Emily Dickinson

Hope

"The sun just touched the morning; the morning, happy thing, supposed that he had come to dwell, and life would be all spring."

- Emily Dickinson

Hope

"The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, supposed that he had come to dwell, and life would be all spring."

- Emily Dickinson

Joy

"I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

- Emily Dickinson

Compassion

"How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door."

- Emily Dickinson

Peace

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

- Emily Dickinson

Happiness

"The morns are meeker than they were, the nuts are getting brown, the berry’s cheek is plumper, the rose is out of town."

- Emily Dickinson

Nature

""There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away.""

- Emily Dickinson

Education

"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."

- Emily Dickinson

Hope

"Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"Fortune befriends the bold."

- Emily Dickinson

Motivation

"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."

- Emily Dickinson

Compassion

"Forever — is composed of Nows — / ‘Tis not a different time — / Except for Infiniteness — / And Latitude of Home —"

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

"Where thou art — that — is home."

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

"They say that ‘home is where the heart is.’ I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings."

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

"Where thou art, that is home."

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

"Where Thou art—that—is Home."

- Emily Dickinson

Love

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

- Emily Dickinson

Perseverance

"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

Hope

"'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

Hope

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

- Emily Dickinson

Joy

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

- Emily Dickinson

Belief

"My friends are my estate."

- Emily Dickinson

Gratitude

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

- Emily Dickinson

Spirituality

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

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"The mere sense of living is happiness enough"

- Emily Dickinson

Happiness

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

- Emily Dickinson

Adversity

"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

Contentment

"“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”"

- Emily Dickinson

Transformation

"Unable are the Loved to die/ For Love is Immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"To be a flower, is profound responsibility."

- Emily Dickinson

Responsibility

"If your nerve deny you, go above your nerve."

- Emily Dickinson

Bravery

""A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.""

- Emily Dickinson

Love

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

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

- Emily Dickinson

Awareness

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet it does not intrude!"

- Emily Dickinson

Reflection

"Nature is a haunted house — but Art — is a house that tries to be haunted."

- Emily Dickinson

Creativity

"Nature is what we know/ —Yet have no art to say— / So impotent Our Wisdom is /To her Simplicity."

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

"A little madness in the Spring is wholesome even for the King."

- Emily Dickinson

Joy

"The lovely flowers embarrass me, they make me regret I am not a bee"

- Emily Dickinson

Aspirations

"The humming— bird! the humming— bird! So fairy— like and bright; It lives among the sunny flowers, A creature of delight!"

- Emily Dickinson

Nature

"A route of evanescence / With a revolving wheel; / A resonance of emerald, / A rush of cochineal; / And every blossom on the bush / Adjusts its tumbled head, / The mail from Tunis, probably, / An easy morning’s ride."

- Emily Dickinson

Nature

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

- Emily Dickinson

Spirituality

"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all."

- Emily Dickinson

Hope

"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

Inspiration

"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

Hope

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

- Emily Dickinson

Reflection

"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

Hope

"Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the king."

- Emily Dickinson

Joy

"The brain is wider than the sky."

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

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

- Emily Dickinson

Awareness