“It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Famous Emily Dickinson Quotes
“Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?”
Source: Dickinson
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away”
Source: Dickinson
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way”
Source: Dickinson
Source: Dickinson
“Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!”
Source: Dickinson
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Earth is a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The steeples swam in amethyst, the news like squirrels swam.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: Selected Letters
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.”
Source: Selected Letters
“Wonder is not precisely knowing.”
Source: Dickinson
“Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.”
Source: Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.”
“After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Love is like life-merely longer.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Nothing is the force that renovates the World.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Friends are nations in themselves.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: Selected poems
“The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.”
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
Source: Poems by Emily Dickinson