Emily Dickinson Quotes

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — One need not be a House — The Brain has Corridors — surpassing Material Place —

Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thronesBut I have not a crest, Her heart is fit for home-I- a Sparrow- build thereSweet of twigs and twineMy perennial nest.

Where thou art that is Home.

I dwell in possibility.

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind - Emily Dickinson

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight!You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

My friends are my estate.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Beauty is not caused. It is.