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Famous Emily Dickinson Quotes
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“When Continents expire The Giants they discarded — are Promoted to endure —”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Banish Air from Air Divide Light if you dare”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“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
“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“I felt it shelter to speak to you.”
Source: Letters of Emily 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.”
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
“The brain is wider than the sky.”
Source: Dickinson
“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)