Emily Quotes

• If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Fire, Reading Poetry

  Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)

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• Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Knowledge, Science

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.185 (first published 1891).

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Time, Memories

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

  Emily Bronte

  Pride, People, Sorrow

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.407, Penguin

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• They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

  Emily Dickinson

  God, Spiritual, Memorable

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.317, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Nice, Telling The Truth

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• I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she'll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.

  Nick Flynn

  Kissing, Reflection, Night

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them". Edited by Cristanne Miller,

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1120, Delphi Classics

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• The brain is wider than the sky.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Learning, Sky

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Dying is a wild night and a new road.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Spiritual, Night

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.463, Harvard University Press

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• Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Encouraging, Spiritual, Not Giving Up

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.248, First Avenue Editions

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• A wounded deer leaps the highest.

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Adversity, Writing

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• Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

  Emily Dickinson

  Anger, Emotion, Fats

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1041, Harvard University Press

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• Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Wisdom, Communication

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• The Soul should always stand ajar.

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Experience, Ecstatic Love

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.300, First Avenue Editions

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• Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

  Emily Dickinson

  Strong Women, Inspirational Life, Earth

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.411, Harvard University Press

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• Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Cute, Good Morning

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.872, Harvard University Press

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• That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Sweet

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

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• Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Spiritual, Emotional

  "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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