“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
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Famous Emily Dickinson Quotes
“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
“A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Forever is composed of nows.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”
Source: The Works of Emily Dickinson
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
“The brain is wider than the sky.”
Source: Dickinson
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
Source: Emily Dickinson
“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.”
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Dying is a wild night and a new road.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Where thou art, that is home.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
Source: Dickinson
“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”
“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
“Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.”
“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)