“To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Famous Emily Dickinson Quotes
Source: Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts
“They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."”
Source: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“The Truth never flaunted a sign.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.”
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.”
Source: Selected Letters
Source: Selected Letters
Source: Selected Letters
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.”
“Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.”