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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  • For each ecstatic instant.
    We must an anguish pay.
    In keen and quivering ratio.
    To the ecstasy.
    Complete Poems (1924)
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  • He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
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  • Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.
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  • His Labor is a Chant - his Idleness - a Tune - oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
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  • His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
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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.
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  • I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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  • I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe.
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  • If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
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  • If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
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  • It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
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  • Let us go in; the fog is rising.
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  • Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
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  • Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
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  • Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
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  • Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid - as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.
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  • Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
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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 never succeed.
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  • Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!
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