Emily Dickinson Quotes - Famous Quotes by Emily Dickinson
Born: 1830-12-10
Died: 1886-05-15
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...the fog is rising. - Last words of Emily Dickinson
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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
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Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
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I dwell in possibility...
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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My friends are my estate.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
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That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
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The mere sense of living is joy enough.
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The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination.
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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
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