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Famous Emily Dickinson Quotes
“For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.”
“Beauty crowds me till I die.”
“Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.”
“Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.”
“They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."”
“We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.”
“The hearts that never lean must fall.”
“How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.”
“Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.”
“Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.”
“Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.”
“The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.”
“Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.”
“To die before one fears to die may be a boon.”
“The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?”
“The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.”
“God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.”
“a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.”
“Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.”
“To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.”
“The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.”
“Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.”
“How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.”
“Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - .”