Quotes by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

American poet

Lived from: 1830 - 1886

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 10 december 1830 Died: 15 may 1886

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  • Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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  • A letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone, without corporal friend.
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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 ourselves and immortality.
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  • Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
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  • Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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  • Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
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  • Dying is a wild night and a new road.
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  • Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see - but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
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  • Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
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  • Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
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  • I dwell in Possibility.
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  • If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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  • Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
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  • Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
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  • The Brain is wider than the sky.
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  • To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
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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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  • After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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  • Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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