“Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
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“Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The Soul should always stand ajar.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
Source: Poems by Emily Dickinson
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
Source: Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.”
“Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Dickinson
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.”
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“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
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”
Source: The Works of Emily Dickinson
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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)